Establishing a Demographic, Development and Environmental Geospatial Surveillance Platform in India: Planning and Implementation.

Shikha Dixit Narendra Kumar Arora Atiqur Rahman Natasha J Howard Rakesh K Singh Mayur Vaswani Manoja Kumar Das Faruqueuddin Ahmed Prashant Mathur Nikhil Tandon Rajib Dasgupta Sanjay Chaturvedi Jaishri Jethwaney Suresh Dalpath Rajendra Prashad Rakesh Kumar Rakesh Gupta Laurette Dube Mark Daniel

Published in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2018)

The SOMAARTH DDESS experience allowed us to document and explore dynamic relationships, associations, and pathways across multiple levels of the system (ie, individual, household, neighborhood, and village) through a geospatial interface. This could be used for characterization and monitoring of a wide range of proximal and distal determinants of health.

Keyphrases

public health
healthcare
human health
primary care
physical activity
mental health
minimally invasive
high throughput
quality improvement
health information
risk assessment
life cycle
health promotion
climate change