[ Système de gestion cartographique des maladies infectieuses suivant le paradigme « diviser pour mieux régner » : Cas du Covid-19 au Cameroun ]
Volume 33, Issue 2, July 2021, Pages 395–404
Namekong Dagha Sinclair1, Wadoufey Abbel2, Mohamadou Yakouda3, and Clarice Fotso4
1 Institut National de Cartographie, PO Box 157 Yaoundé, Cameroon
2 Institut National de Cartographie, PO Box 157 Yaoundé, Cameroon
3 Institut National de Cartographie, PO Box 157 Yaoundé, Cameroon
4 National institute of cartography, P.O. Box 157 Yaoundé, Cameroon
Original language: French
Copyright © 2021 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The rapid spread of the COVID19 virus surprised most of the world's public health specialists and pushed various countries to adopt palliative measures. These measures ranged from total containment, to the elimination of physical contact between people and the use of ICTs to follow up infected cases. Many IT solutions have been developed everywhere else, if they have been able to provide answers in the countries where they have unfortunately been implemented for Cameroon, they do not seem suitable. Faced with this situation, our article proposes a cartographic management system to respond in the future to different types of infectious diseases, it is therefore based on the “divide and conquer” paradigm and the concepts of cartography to guarantee effective management of disease. A system that takes into account the specifics of Cameroon's response to Covid-19. This system is built in an environment integrating the use of mobile techniques, in particular Bluetooth technologies and mobile geographic information systems, in order to allow the monitoring of patients and the traceability of the evolution of the disease; this platform also offers a framework for consultation between patients and medical specialists for the sharing of experience in order to limit the spread of the virus present.
Author Keywords: Covid-19, Bluetooth, GIS, mobile, ICT, cartographic.
Volume 33, Issue 2, July 2021, Pages 395–404
Namekong Dagha Sinclair1, Wadoufey Abbel2, Mohamadou Yakouda3, and Clarice Fotso4
1 Institut National de Cartographie, PO Box 157 Yaoundé, Cameroon
2 Institut National de Cartographie, PO Box 157 Yaoundé, Cameroon
3 Institut National de Cartographie, PO Box 157 Yaoundé, Cameroon
4 National institute of cartography, P.O. Box 157 Yaoundé, Cameroon
Original language: French
Copyright © 2021 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The rapid spread of the COVID19 virus surprised most of the world's public health specialists and pushed various countries to adopt palliative measures. These measures ranged from total containment, to the elimination of physical contact between people and the use of ICTs to follow up infected cases. Many IT solutions have been developed everywhere else, if they have been able to provide answers in the countries where they have unfortunately been implemented for Cameroon, they do not seem suitable. Faced with this situation, our article proposes a cartographic management system to respond in the future to different types of infectious diseases, it is therefore based on the “divide and conquer” paradigm and the concepts of cartography to guarantee effective management of disease. A system that takes into account the specifics of Cameroon's response to Covid-19. This system is built in an environment integrating the use of mobile techniques, in particular Bluetooth technologies and mobile geographic information systems, in order to allow the monitoring of patients and the traceability of the evolution of the disease; this platform also offers a framework for consultation between patients and medical specialists for the sharing of experience in order to limit the spread of the virus present.
Author Keywords: Covid-19, Bluetooth, GIS, mobile, ICT, cartographic.
Abstract: (french)
La fulgurance de la propagation de la COVID19 virus a surpris la plupart des spécialistes mondiaux de santé publique et poussée différents pays à adopter des mesures palliatives. Ces mesures allaient du confinement total, à la suppression des contacts physiques entre personne en passant par l’utilisation des TIC pour le suivi des cas infectés. De nombreuses solutions informatiques ont été développées partout ailleurs, si elles ont pu apporter des réponses dans les pays où elles ont été mise en œuvre malheureusement pour le Cameroun, elles ne semblent pas adaptées. Face à cette situation notre article propose un système de gestion cartographique pour répondre à l’avenir à différents types de maladies infectieuses, elle repose pour ce fait sur le paradigme « diviser pour mieux régner » et les concepts de cartographie pour garantir une gestion efficace de la maladie. Un système qui tient compte des spécificités de la réponse du Cameroun face au Covid-19. Ce système est bâti dans un environnement intégrant l’utilisation des techniques mobiles plus particulièrement des technologies Bluetooth et les systèmes d’information géographique mobile, afin de permettre le suivi des malades et la traçabilité de l’évolution de la maladie; cette plateforme propose également un cadre de concertation entre malades et spécialistes de la médecine pour un partage d’expérience dans le but de limiter la propagation du virus en présence.
Author Keywords: Covid-19, Bluetooth, SIG, mobile, TIC, Cartographie.
How to Cite this Article
Namekong Dagha Sinclair, Wadoufey Abbel, Mohamadou Yakouda, and Clarice Fotso, “Cartographic management system of infectious diseases following the paradigm « divide for better rule » : Case of Covid-19 in Cameroon,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 395–404, July 2021.
