Geospatial analysis: a new frontier in humanitarian health research?
Autor
Jabbour, Samer
Attal, Bothaina
Institución
Resumen
The complexity and brutality of modern conflicts,
with Yemen as a prime example, pose threats to
humanitarian providers and reduce access to affected
communities. Humanitarians and researchers alike
have increasingly used remote methods to study health
challenges, monitor health violations, and deliver
interventions. Remote methods can be as simple as
Skyping local providers or more sophisticated such as
machine learning-based monitoring of social media
reports. In The Lancet Global Health, Kent Garber and
colleagues1
explore a grossly underused remote method
in humanitarian health research, that is, geospatial
analysis.