An Attempt to Transmit the Information on the Epidemic Influenza at Each Facility to the Regional Comprehensive Support Center using GIS―Development of the Infectious Disease Epidemic Reporting System using the School Districts of Yokohama Municipal Junior High Schools―

Abstract

　The authors constructed a new system to visualize the epidemic status of influenza infection on a map using the school districts of Yokohama Municipal Junior High School. In these districts, all facilities that reported the outbreak of influenza are included, thus it is necessary to identify and aggregate the totals of each school district concerned. The ‘‘Infectious Disease Epidemic Reporting System’’ (the new registration system), which customized the existing registration system, has a mechanism that deals with multiple reports in the same week at each facility by the automatic sequential addition, and constructs information in time series. In addition, mapping and graphing of the number of patients reported per fixed point as well as information of the Regional Comprehensive Support Center are to be unitarily visualized from the specification. The concept of a community-based care system assumes that the area of daily life is a junior high school district. By transmitting this information, it is possible that it will make it easier to better understand the status of the epidemic in each region and lead to a greater awareness of the prevention of infection.