Abstract
This study examined the feasibility of conducting digital surveillance of health and safety hazards through a system that can be accessed by travelers using their mobile phones. A progressive mobile website and a mobile application were developed employing a research database which consists of hazards, risks and health facilities that have been geo-tagged and mapped based on their respective geographical positions in 197 tourist attractions in Bali. The system was launched in 80 strategic tourist attractions in Bali at the end of August 2019. Trends in some specific diseases, hazards, and risks were observed monthly using a keyword analysis. Serial data for the first four months were analyzed and presented descriptively. The result shows that in total there were 19,869 visits to the website, or an average of 163 visits per day. There has been a nearly three-fold increase in total website traffic from 85.2 in September to 245.8 in December 2019. Safety hazard is the most frequently visited pages by tourists and there were 45 valid keywords found in the website panelboard. This study is the first to examine the possibility of developing a digital surveillance system using mobile phones directly involving travelers at destinations.
Highlights
Several studies have shown that there is still a lack of travel health information received by international travelers
Surveillance system in Bali or Indonesia is generally only focused on routine diseases
The research began with the Travel Health
Summary
Travelers are important populations from an epidemiological point of view because of high mobility, the possibility of getting a disease or accident outside the country of origin, the risk of exporting diseases to the destinations, and importing diseases into the country of origin (WHO, 2008). This causes several problems such as difficulties in measuring risk, due to the inability to determine the accurate number of travelers who have contracted a disease or accident (numerator) and the total number of travelers at risk (the denominator).
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