Browsing by Author "Cesario, Manuel"
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Designing a serious game for community-based disease prevention in the Amazon
(ACM, 2014)Many developing regions around the world rely on community-based healthcare strategies and practices to deal with prevention and control of often neglected diseases, by educating the local population and healthcare ... -
Disease surveillance and patient care in remote regions: an exploratory study of collaboration among healthcare professionals in Amazonia
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)The development and deployment of information technology, particularly mobile tools, to support collaboration between different groups of healthcare professionals has been viewed as a promising way to improve disease ... -
Mobile support for diagnosis of communicable diseases in remote locations
(ACM, 2012)Surveillance and diagnosis of new and emerging communicable diseases in remote regions, such as the Amazon, is a challenging task. These regions can be difficult to reach, are sparsely populated, and have limited medical ... -
Supporting collaboration among healthcare professionals and disease surveillance in remote areas
(IEEE, 2012-06-20)It is estimated that global climate change and regional land use and cover changes in the Amazon region will contribute to the spread of vector-borne diseases such as bartonellosis and leishmaniasis. The large geographical ... -
Time-based geographical mapping of communicable diseases
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers., 2012)Information visualisation methods can potentially be employed to assist the work of epidemiologists and other health care professionals in mapping the spread of communicable diseases in remote areas, where the task of ...
