The Development of Multi-Platforms Application for Dengue-Entomological Surveillance System

摘要

In Malaysia, entomological surveillance is locally applied to effectively monitor, prevent and control the dengue disease outbreaks. The team of Entomology and Pest Unit (EPU) from the State Health Office of Ministry of Health is the local division that is responsible to perform the dengue monitoring operational tasks. Nevertheless, the EPU team members are currently using the conventional and manual procedures in conducting the entomological surveillance activities. Therefore, there is a critical need to support the EPU team for the development of an automated entomological tool that should reduce the burden in manual interventions for data collection, analysis and reporting the results of entomological surveillance operations. The goal of this project is to develop multi-platforms application for Dengue-Entomological Surveillance (DES) system that will enhance and cost-effectively support the EPU team in their fieldwork especially during dengue surveillance missions. The DES system is expected to be integrated as an interactive mobile and hybrid web applications with three key features, namely: (i) automated real-time data collection for ovitrapping installation operations (ii) automated efficient ovitrapping data analysis, and (iii) automated effective report generation for overall dengue surveillance and control tasks. It is hoped that the developed DES system shall increase the efficiency of the EPU team in systematically performing the entomological surveillance operations, and contributes to the improvement of early detection and better mechanism to strategically prevent and control the dengue outbreaks.