harmonize-tools/land4health

Vector-borne disease data are available through land4health

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#5 opened on May 13, 2025

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land4health: Land does not only mean ‘soil’, but territory, geographical space, land surface from a GIS perspective. Diseases such as malaria and dengue depend on characteristics of the territory, including the presence of the vectors, so it is necessary to consider the aggregation of functions to extract data from:

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Research direction
Investigate the APIs of the listed vector borne disease data sources (opendengue, malariaatlas, healthmap) and implement R functions to download and parse the data into a format compatible with the land4health package.
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r
Domain
dataapi
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3
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1-2 days
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Active
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Mostly clear
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40