Using Mobile Phone Data to Reduce Spread of Disease

Using Mobile Phone Data to Reduce Spread of Disease

While human mobility has important benefits for economic growth, it can generate negative externalities. This paper studies the effect of mobility on the spread of disease in a low-incidence setting when people do not internalize their risks to oth...

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Main Author: Milusheva, Sveta
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:
HEALTH
PUBLIC HEALTH
DISEASE CONTROL
EPIDEMICS
MOBILE PHONE
MOBILITY
PUBLIC POLICY
BIG DATA
MALARIA
TRAVEL
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/143411585572411591/Using-Mobile-Phone-Data-to-Reduce-Spread-of-Disease
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spelling okr-10986-335202022-09-20T00:12:18Z Using Mobile Phone Data to Reduce Spread of Disease Milusheva, Sveta HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH DISEASE CONTROL EPIDEMICS MOBILE PHONE MOBILITY PUBLIC POLICY BIG DATA MALARIA TRAVEL While human mobility has important benefits for economic growth, it can generate negative externalities. This paper studies the effect of mobility on the spread of disease in a low-incidence setting when people do not internalize their risks to others. Using malaria as a case study and 15 billion mobile phone records across nine million SIM cards, this paper causally quantifies the relationship between travel and the spread of disease. The estimates indicate that an infected traveler contributes to 1.7 additional cases reported in the health facility at the traveler's destination. This paper develops a simulation-based policy tool that uses mobile phone data to inform strategic targeting of travelers based on their origins and destinations. The simulations suggest that targeting informed by mobile phone data could reduce the caseload by 50 percent more than current strategies that rely only on previous incidence. 2020-04-02T18:46:36Z 2020-04-02T18:46:36Z 2020-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/143411585572411591/Using-Mobile-Phone-Data-to-Reduce-Spread-of-Disease http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33520 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9198 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa
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topic HEALTH
PUBLIC HEALTH
DISEASE CONTROL
EPIDEMICS
MOBILE PHONE
MOBILITY
PUBLIC POLICY
BIG DATA
MALARIA
TRAVEL
spellingShingle HEALTH
PUBLIC HEALTH
DISEASE CONTROL
EPIDEMICS
MOBILE PHONE
MOBILITY
PUBLIC POLICY
BIG DATA
MALARIA
TRAVEL
Milusheva, Sveta
Using Mobile Phone Data to Reduce Spread of Disease
geographic_facet Africa
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9198
description While human mobility has important benefits for economic growth, it can generate negative externalities. This paper studies the effect of mobility on the spread of disease in a low-incidence setting when people do not internalize their risks to others. Using malaria as a case study and 15 billion mobile phone records across nine million SIM cards, this paper causally quantifies the relationship between travel and the spread of disease. The estimates indicate that an infected traveler contributes to 1.7 additional cases reported in the health facility at the traveler's destination. This paper develops a simulation-based policy tool that uses mobile phone data to inform strategic targeting of travelers based on their origins and destinations. The simulations suggest that targeting informed by mobile phone data could reduce the caseload by 50 percent more than current strategies that rely only on previous incidence.
format Working Paper
author Milusheva, Sveta
author_facet Milusheva, Sveta
author_sort Milusheva, Sveta
title Using Mobile Phone Data to Reduce Spread of Disease
title_short Using Mobile Phone Data to Reduce Spread of Disease
title_full Using Mobile Phone Data to Reduce Spread of Disease
title_fullStr Using Mobile Phone Data to Reduce Spread of Disease
title_full_unstemmed Using Mobile Phone Data to Reduce Spread of Disease
title_sort using mobile phone data to reduce spread of disease
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/143411585572411591/Using-Mobile-Phone-Data-to-Reduce-Spread-of-Disease
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33520
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