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An Informatics-Based Approach for Sustainable Management of Factors Affecting the Spread of Infectious Diseases

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Several of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are directly or indirectly concerned with improving health and well-being of the world population. This paper presents an informatics-based approach to the management and monitoring of infectious diseases, in the context of one of these SDGs focusing on the eradication of vector-borne diseases such as malaria, Zika and other neglected tropical diseases. Here we outline the challenges faced by many conventional approaches to ecoepidemiological modelling and proposes a distributed interactive architecture for teamwork coordination, and data integration at different levels of information, and across disciplines. This approach is illustrated by an application to the surveillance of Leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease, in remote regions.

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  1. The Usher Institute, Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Saturnino Luz

  2. School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

    Masood Masoodian

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Luz, S., Masoodian, M. (2022). An Informatics-Based Approach for Sustainable Management of Factors Affecting the Spread of Infectious Diseases. In: Ardito, C., et al. Sense, Feel, Design. INTERACT 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13198. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98388-8_5

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