Early warning and prevention of related climate epidemics using satellite based integrated approach

Paper number

IAC-05-B2.1.06

Author

Mr. René Rettig, Institute for Space Medicine and Physiology/MEDES, France

Coauthor

Mr. Antonio Guell, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

Coauthor

Mr. Laurent Braak, France

Coauthor

Mr. Nicolas Poirot, France

Coauthor

Mr. Olivier Tournebize, France

Year

2005

Abstract

Following the tsunami disaster that occurred in December 2004 CNES and MEDES and Indian partner, INDOCOMPUTECH, have decided to deploy first services to be provided as soon as possible to people who have been affected by this disaster.
Tele consultation systems and terminals for epidemiological survey were deployed in three sites chosen within the Indian area. Indian and French partners are willing to develop combined tele-epidemiology and telemedicine applications in order to mitigate the effects of natural disasters as a new an original approach. First lesson learned could be analyzed at the end of the autumn 2005. 

This initiative was based on preliminary results of an integrated approach in Public Health for prediction and management of health risk, opening analysis of Health Environment relationships as a new field for early warning operational systems able to alert and predict the geographical extension of epidemics

The integrative approach consists in three main objectives: 
- Deployment of ground Health Information Systems (epidemiological networks) for data early warning, information transfer and management in real time, using all telecommunication tools available and satellite too.
- For risk quantification use of bio-mathematical modelling of epidemic phenomena dynamics (quantitative approach of risk), which integrates transportation processes, pathogens, vectors, hosts and physical and socio-ecological environment. 
- Remote sensing approach (environmental approach) using earth observation resources, which measures epidemics cofactors as vegetation, hydrology, forest, coverage, meteorology, population.

This frame of experiment was operated within the EMERCASE project with partner like CNES, INRA (Agronomic Research Institute), Veterinary School of Lyon and Pasteur Institute, in collaboration with scientific laboratories (CIRAD, CEA, IRD, Universities) and industrial partners (EADS-MS2I, SOGREAH, SPOTIMAGES, BRGM...).

Human health and epidemics are often depending on weather changes. Some of them come with natural disaster. Epidemics related to climate change have similarity with natural disaster. We think that it is possible to deploy space resources for early warning and prevention of related weather epidemics.

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