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Disasters
Disasters
More than 350 million people are affected by disasters each year.
Disasters act as a catalyst by bringing together a disease agent and host in a changed environment. Disasters can effect health in many ways and result in an increase in morbidity, mortality and disabilities; distress reactions: psychological health effects, psychiatric health effects and health risk behaviours as well as long-term health effects.
8 steps for investigating and managing an outbreak
8 steps for investigating and managing an outbreak
1.Establish the existence of an outbreak
2.Confirm diagnosis
3.Define and identify outbreak cases
4.Describe cases and develop hypotheses
5.Evaluate hypotheses and draw conclusions
6.Compare with established facts
7.Execute prevention measures
8.Communicate findings
Take the geohealth course to learn how to use geospatial technologies and spatial analysis to reduce disaster-related health risks and outcomes.
Disaster health effects
Disaster Analysis
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Spatial-temporal analysis Ebola
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Book - Chapter 4. Disaster epidemiology: health emergencies and hazard considerations: surveillance to communication in Blanford, J.I. (2024) Geographic information, geospatial technologies and spatial data science for health. Pp376. CRC Taylor & Francis.
Book - Chapter 3. Statistics, Analysis and visualisations in Blanford, J.I. (2024) Geographic information, geospatial technologies and spatial data science for health. Pp376. CRC Taylor & Francis.
Book - Chapter 5. Data in a nutshell: geospatial data, structuring data, managing data and ethics in Blanford, J.I. (2024) Geographic information, geospatial technologies and spatial data science for health. Pp376. CRC Taylor & Francis.
2024 Blanford, J.I. (2024) Managing vector-borne diseases in a geoAI-enabled society. Malaria as an example. Acta Tropica.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001706X24002870
2024 Ifejube, J., Kuriakosa, S.L., Anish,T.S., van Westen, C., Blanford, J.I. (2024) Analysing the outbreaks of leptospirosis after floods in Kerala, India. International Journal of Health Geographics. 23. 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-024-00372-9
2024 Tjaden, N., Geeraedts, F., Riezebos-Brilman, A., Kioko, C., Al Naiemi, N., Blanford, J.I., Beerlage-de Jong, N. (2024) The power of interactive maps for communicating spatio-temporal data to health professionals. Geospatial Health
2022 Blanford, J.I., N. Beerlage-de Jong, S. Schouten, A. Friedrich, V. Araujo-Soares (2022) Navigating travel in Europe during the pandemic: from mobile apps, certificates, quarantine to traffic-light system. Journal of Travel Medicine. taac006, https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taac006
2021 Blanford, J. I. & Jolly. A. (2021). Public health needs GiScience (like now!). In AGILE: GIScience Series, 18. Greece: Copernicus Publications.
2014 Blanford, J.I., Bernhardt, J., Savelyev, A., Wong-Parodi, G., Carleton, A.M., Titley, D.W. and MacEachren, A.M. (2014) Tweeting and Tornadoes. 11th International ISCRAM Conference. State College, Pennsylvania, USA.
2011 MacEachren A. M., Jaiswal, A., Robinson, A.C., Pezanowski, S., Savelyev, A., Mitra, P., Zhangi, X. & Blanford, J. (2011) SensePlace2: GeoTwitter Analytics Support for Situational Awareness. Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), IEEE Conference. 181-190. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6102456. Received award.
2011 MacEachren A. M., Robinson, A.C., Jaiswal, A., Pezanowski, S., Savelyev, A., Blanford, J., & Mitra, P. (2011) July 3-8. Geo-Twitter Analytics: Applications in Crisis Management. 25th International Cartographic Conference, Paris, France.
2011 Tomaszewski, B., Blanford, J.I., Ross, K., Pezanowski, S. & MacEachren A.M. (2011) Supporting Geographically-aware WebDocument Foraging and Sensemaking. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.35:192-207
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