A Web-Based Application to Monitor and Inform about the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy: The {COVID-19ita} Initiative

被引：5

作者：

Lanera, Corrado ^{[1
]}

Azzolina, Danila ^{[1
,2
]}

Pirotti, Francesco ^{[3
]}

Prosepe, Ilaria ^{[1
]}

Lorenzoni, Giulia ^{[1
]}

Berchialla, Paola ^{[4
]}

Gregori, Dario ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Padua, Dept Cardiac Thorac Vasc Sci & Publ Hlth, Unit Biostat Epidemiol & Publ Hlth, I-35131 Padua, Italy

[2] Univ Ferrara, Dept Environm & Prevent Sci, I-44121 Ferrara, Italy

[3] Univ Padua, Dept Land Environm Agr & Forestry, I-35020 Padua, Italy

[4] Univ Torino, Dept Clin & Biol Sci, I-10043 Turin, Italy

来源：

HEALTHCARE | 2022年 / 10卷 / 03期

关键词：

COVID-19; web application; shiny app; monitoring tool;

D O I：

10.3390/healthcare10030473

中图分类号：

R19 [保健组织与事业（卫生事业管理）];

学科分类号：

摘要：

The pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 has posed several questions about public health emergency risk communication. Due to the effort required for the population to adopt appropriate behaviors in response to the emergency, it is essential to inform the public of the epidemic situation with transparent data sources. The COVID-19ita project aimed to develop a public open-source tool to provide timely, updated information on the pandemic's evolution in Italy. It is a web-based application, the front end for the eponymously named R package freely available on GitHub, deployed both in English and Italian. The web application pulls the data from the official repository of the Italian COVID-19 outbreak at the national, regional, and provincial levels. The app allows the user to select information to visualize data in an interactive environment and compare epidemic situations over time and across different Italian regions. At the same time, it provides insights about the outbreak that are explained and commented upon to yield reasoned, focused, timely, and updated information about the outbreak evolution.

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