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Design and implementation of a collaborative epidemiological surveillance system for aquaculture (VECA)
Author(s) -
Muniesa Ana,
RuizZarzuela Imanol,
Blas Ignacio
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
reviews in aquaculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.998
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1753-5131
pISSN - 1753-5123
DOI - 10.1111/raq.12165
Subject(s) - epidemiology , epidemiological surveillance , public health , environmental health , citizen journalism , warning system , business , early warning system , computer science , medicine , data science , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental planning , geography , pathology , world wide web , telecommunications
Syndromic surveillance and participatory epidemiology are nowadays taking part in the public health system because they can be very interesting tools to complement the classical ones. Although syndromic surveillance could be nonspecific, it is usually based on real‐time data analysis to provide early warnings. Participatory Epidemiology can bring us different and interesting approaches that we can use to better understand the problem. VECA implements an epidemiological surveillance system, validated by experts and users, which allows collecting real‐time information of each facility on production data, origin of animals, environmental parameters, disease status and therapeutic and prophylactic measures. Based on the data collected, the results of preliminary epidemiological analyses have been selected to design the most relevant indexes, which will set different levels of health warning, to help those responsible for aquatic animal health and producers to make the right decisions. The platform can be used by owners or those responsible of farms who wish to collaborate in the development of this system of epidemiological alert and to prevent future diseases that cause incalculable losses in the sector.