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CONTRIBUTING TO ELIMINATION OF CROSS-BORDER MALARIA THROUGH A STANDARDIZED SOLUTION FOR CASE SURVEILLANCE, DATA SHARING, AND DATA INTERPRETATION: DEVELOPMENT OF A CROSS-BORDER MONITORING SYSTEM
Saldanha, Raphael et al. | Date Issued: 2020
Author
Saldanha, Raphael
Mosnier, Émilie
Barcellos, Christovam
Carbunar, Aurel
Charron, Christophe
Desconnets, Jean-Christophe
Guarmit, Basma
Gomes, Margarete Do Socorro Mendonça
Mandon, Théophile
Mendes, Anapaula Martins
Peiter, Paulo César
Musset, Lise
Sanna, Alice
Gastel, Benoît Van
Roux, Emmanuel
Affilliation
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Laboratório de Informação em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Universidade de Brasília. . Brasília, DF, Brasil / Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. Laboratoire Mixte International Sentinela. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne. Service des Centres Délocalisés de Prévention et de Soins. Cayenne, French Guiana / Aix Marseille Université. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. Sciences Économiques et Sociales de la Santé et Traitement de l'Information Médicale. Marseille, France.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Laboratório de Informação em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Universidade de Brasília. Brasília, DF, Brasil / Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. Laboratoire Mixte International Sentinela. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne. Service des Centres Délocalisés de Prévention et de Soins. Cayenne, French Guiana.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Universidade de Brasília. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. Laboratoire Mixte International Sentinela. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Université de Montpellier, Université de La Réunion, Université de Guyane, Université des Antilles, Cayenne, French Guiana, and Montpellier. Espace-Dev, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. France.
Universidade de Brasília. . Brasília, DF, Brasil / Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. Laboratoire Mixte International Sentinela. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Université de Montpellier, Université de La Réunion, Université de Guyane, Université des Antilles, Cayenne, French Guiana, and Montpellier. Espace-Dev, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. France.
Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne. Service des Centres Délocalisés de Prévention et de Soins. Cayenne, French Guiana.
Superintendência de Vigilância em Saúde do Estado do Amapá. Macapá, AP, Brazil.
Université de Montpellier, Université de La Réunion, Université de Guyane, Université des Antilles, Cayenne, French Guiana, and Montpellier. Espace-Dev, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. France.
Universidade Federal do Amapá. Oiapoque, AP, Brazil.
Universidade de Brasília. Brasília, DF, Brasil / Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. Laboratoire Mixte International Sentinela. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Doenças Parasitárias. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Institut Pasteur de la Guyane. Laboratoire de Parasitologie. Cayenne, French Guiana / World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Surveillance of Antimalarial Drug Resistance. Pôle Zones Endémiques Françaises. Centre National de Référence du Paludisme. Cayenne, French Guiana.
Agence Régionale de Santé de Guyane. Cayenne, French Guiana.
Agence Régionale de Santé de Guyane. Cayenne, French Guiana.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Laboratório de Informação em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Universidade de Brasília. . Brasília, DF, Brasil / Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. Laboratoire Mixte International Sentinela. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Université de Montpellier, Université de La Réunion, Université de Guyane, Université des Antilles, Cayenne, French Guiana, and Montpellier. Espace-Dev, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. France.
Abstract
Background: Cross-border malaria is a significant obstacle to achieving malaria control and elimination worldwide. Objective: This study aimed to build a cross-border surveillance system that can make comparable and qualified data available to all parties involved in malaria control between French Guiana and Brazil. Methods: Data reconciliation rules based on expert knowledge were defined and applied to the heterogeneous data provided by the existing malaria surveillance systems of both countries. Visualization dashboards were designed to facilitate progressive data exploration, analysis, and interpretation. Dedicated advanced open source and robust software solutions were chosen to facilitate solution sharing and reuse. Results: A database gathering the harmonized data on cross-border malaria epidemiology is updated monthly with new individual malaria cases from both countries. Online dashboards permit a progressive and user-friendly visualization of raw data and epidemiological indicators, in the form of time series, maps, and data quality indexes. The monitoring system was shown to be able to identify changes in time series that are related to control actions, as well as differentiated changes according to space and to population subgroups. Conclusions: This cross-border monitoring tool could help produce new scientific evidence on cross-border malaria dynamics, implementing cross-border cooperation for malaria control and elimination, and can be quickly adapted to other cross-border contexts.
Keywords
Cross-border malaria
Surveillance
Data interoperability
Data visualization
French Guiana
Brazil
 
Publisher
JMIR Public Health Surveill
Citation
SALDANHA, Raphael et al. Contributing to elimination of cross-border malaria through a standardized solution for case surveillance, data sharing, and data interpretation: development of a cross-border monitoring system. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, v. 6, n. 3, p. 1-15, 2020.
DOI
10.2196/15409
ISSN
2369-2960