Honduras: two hurricanes, COVID-19, dengue and the need for a new digital health surveillance system | Zendy

Reyna M. Durón | Zendy; Eduardo Romero Sánchez | Zendy; Joon Nak Choi | Zendy; Guímel Peralta | Zendy; Sandra Gómez Ventura | Zendy; R Soto | Zendy; Gaspar Rodríguez | Zendy; Chad Ahrens | Zendy; Efraín Farach | Zendy; Julio Figueroa | Zendy; Gracia M. Pineda | Zendy; A. Romero | Zendy; Oswaldo Rodríguez | Zendy; David Discua | Zendy; Javier Salgado | Zendy

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Honduras: two hurricanes, COVID-19, dengue and the need for a new digital health surveillance system

Author(s) -

Reyna M. Durón,

Eduardo Romero Sánchez,

Joon Nak Choi,

Guímel Peralta,

Sandra Gómez Ventura,

R Soto,

Gaspar Rodríguez,

Chad Ahrens,

Efraín Farach,

Julio Figueroa,

Gracia M. Pineda,

A. Romero,

Oswaldo Rodríguez,

David Discua,

Javier Salgado

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa266

Subject(s) - pandemic , dengue fever , public health , covid-19 , health informatics , epidemiology , public health surveillance , digital health , environmental health , multidisciplinary approach , geography , medical emergency , political science , economic growth , medicine , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , health care , outbreak , nursing , pathology , law , economics

A recently published article of this journal stated that informatics solutions can guide better public health decision-making during the COVID 19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) pandemic. Honduras is a country facing the COVID-19 pandemic with a weak health surveillance system while also fighting a dengue epidemic and the aftermath of two hurricanes that struck its territory in November 2020. In response, we as academics started a COVID-19 and Dengue Observatory combining several technological platforms and developing multidisciplinary research to help the country navigate the crisis. Mapping the pandemic and the natural disasters showed us that technology can be applied toward epidemiology to benefit communities in a time of need by quickly building a basic digital health surveillance system for Honduras.

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