1.5. Epidemic monitoring
The system provides the health organization with the necessary elements to know the level of evolution of epidemiological outbreaks by geographic area, facilitating the identification of risk areas (areas where a higher concentration of people who have contracted the disease has been detected).
For the geographical representation of the information, Google Maps is used. The quantification and qualification of cases by area is reflected on the map through a set of indicators:
- Daily accounting of the number of suspicious, confirmed, recovered, active and deceased users.
- Daily growth in the number of suspicious, confirmed, recovered, active users and confirmed deaths.
- Areas with the highest concentration of positive cases.
These indicators can be represented on the selected areas on the map, or displayed in graphs through different typologies.
In the previous image, the indicators referring to the daily accounting of the number of suspected, confirmed, active, recovered and deceased cases have been represented. On the other hand, in the following image we can see how the daily growth of each of the aforementioned indicators is graphically identified:
The geo-location of specific cases and users (based on the information provided from the mobile app), as well as the display of their corresponding states constitutes another of the main functionalities provided by the web application. In the following image we can see what this representation looks like.
The multiple combinations that can be established to obtain information on specific geographic areas endows the system with an important capacity to follow the evolution of the epidemic. This characteristic is especially important in the visualization of risk areas; that is, the areas where the highest concentration of positive cases has occurred:
