Transforming zoonotic disease surveillance and spatial epidemiology: Improving content, detail, and data infrastructure

Modeling and improving Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)

Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) development is widely known to be a challenging process owing to its complex and dynamic nature. Although great effort has been made to conceptually explain the complexity and dynamics of SDIs, few studies thus far have actually modeled these complexities. In fact, better modeling of SDI complexities will lead to more reliable plans for its development. A state...

Targeting Transmission Pathways for Emerging Zoonotic Disease Surveillance and Control.

We used literature searches and a database of all reported emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) to analyze the most important transmission pathways (e.g., vector-borne, aerosol droplet transmitted) for emerging zoonoses. Our results suggest that at the broad scale, the likelihood of transmission occurring through any one pathway is approximately equal. However, the major transmission pathways fo...

Spatial Data Infrastructure

In the analogue era, concern for spatial data and its distribution were tasks for mapping organisations earning a reputation for producing quality products based on their spatial characteristics, including their visualisation in printed map form to be used for many different types of problems. In contrast, from the second half of the twentieth century onwards, with the developments in computer ...

Participatory epidemiology in disease surveillance and research.

Participatory epidemiology is the application of participatory methods to epidemiological research and disease surveillance. It is a proven technique which overcomes many of the limitations of conventional epidemiological methods, and has been used to solve a number of animal health surveillance and research problems. The approach was developed in small-scale, community animal health programmes...

Spatial Data Infrastructure and Communication of Properties and Level of Detail of Geographical Information: Examples from Norway