Abstract
Abstract. In 2019–2020, we conducted a set of case studies devoted to the investigation and design of a methodology for GIS-based support of medical administration and planning on a city scale when accounting and controlling infectious disease. The studies were conducted for the administrative territory of St. Petersburg city (Russia), and were based upon the medical statistics data collected and accounted by St. Petersburg medical administration. The statistics included data on tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis infection. All the medical data used in the study are impersonalized. GIS-based MDMS prototype was developed upon the QGIS software.Moving forward in the previously formed study direction, now we are working on MDMS interface redesigning to facilitate its usability. Current activities are focussed on incorporation of the Web interface into previously developed MDMS prototype. The paper discusses development of the Web GIS interface prototype, and poses feature research and development aims. First feedback collected from medicals makes it possible to pose a Web-GIS-based MDMS as more flexible and easy to use, in comparison to the desktop-GIS-based.
Highlights
Geographical Information Systems (GISs) are demanded as one of valuable technologies by medical geography
Medical cartography formed as an overlap of medical geography and cartography domains (Chistobayev, Semenova, 2013) attracts GISs as a mapping automation toolkit, while medical geography itself attracts it as a geospatial analytics and data management infrastructure
Results gained on previous stages of our investigations incorporated into the prototype of GIS-based medical data management system (MDMS), we developed a set of techniques for medical statistics data accounting, storage and mapping
Summary
Geographical Information Systems (GISs) are demanded as one of valuable technologies by medical geography. For more than a year, our research group formed by researchers from universities and medical institutions is working on the study of GISs application to accounting and modelling (first of all, mapping) of the spread of socially valuable diseases (Russian Government, 2004) in the administrative area of St. Petersburg city (Russia). Results gained on previous stages of our investigations incorporated into the prototype of GIS-based medical data management system (MDMS), we developed a set of techniques for medical statistics data accounting, storage and mapping. According to the information provided by medicals, there were about 10-12 new (unregistered previously) cases of tuberculosis infection This case demonstrates the possibility of GIS incorporation as an supporting technology when organizing a preventive fight against the disease in the area. One of the promising directions for us is the incorporation of Web GIS facilities into developed toolkit
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