Measuring mobility, disease connectivity and individual risk: a review of using mobile phone data and mHealth for travel medicine.

ABSTRACT: The increasing mobility of populations allows pathogens to move rapidly and far, making endemic or epidemic regions more connected to the rest of the world than at any time in history. However, the ability to measure and monitor human mobility, health risk and their changing patterns across spatial and temporal scales using traditional data sources has been limited. To facilitate a better understanding of the use of emerging mobile phone technology and data in travel medicine, we reviewed relevant work aiming at measuring human mobility, disease connectivity and health risk in travellers using mobile geopositioning data. Despite some inherent biases of mobile phone data, analysing anonymized positions from mobile users could precisely quantify the dynamical processes associated with contem

SUBMITTER: Lai S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6904325 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature