Health Data Science

Quantifying the effect of human population mobility on malaria risk in the Peruvian Amazon

Missed opportunities for vaccination in Peru 2010–2020: A study of socioeconomic inequalities

Travel Time to Health Facilities as a Marker of Geographical Accessibility Across Heterogeneous Land Coverage in Peru

Collaboration in times of COVID-19: the urgent need for open-data sharing in Latin America

RECOMENDACIONES PARA DESCRIBIR DE FORMA ADECUADA UNA CURVA EPIDÉMICA DE COVID-19

Revealing the air pollution burden associated with internal Migration in Peru

Quantifying the effect of human population mobility on malaria risk in the Peruvian Amazon

The impact of human population movement (HPM) on the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, has been described. However, there are limited data on the use of new technologies for the study of HPM in endemic areas with difficult …

Missed opportunities for vaccination in Peru 2010–2020: A study of socioeconomic inequalities

Background Missed Opportunities for Vaccination (MOV) represent a major risk in the re-emergence of immunopreventable diseases. However, in the region, there are few published studies on MOVs using national databases such as demographic and health …

Collaboration in times of COVID-19: the urgent need for open-data sharing in Latin America

The pandemic of COVID-19 has shown that the information disseminated through peer-reviewed journals and accompanying online data sets is vital for decision-makers. However, we are currently seeing several deficiencies in open-data sharing mechanisms …

Revealing the air pollution burden associated with internal Migration in Peru

This study aims to quantify changes in outdoor (ambient) air pollution exposure from different migration patterns within Peru and quantify its effect on premature mortality. Data on ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) was obtained from the …