Rosencrans Louie C, Sume Gerald E, Kouontchou Jean-Christian, Voorman Arend, Anokwa Yaw, Fezeu Maurice, Seaman Vincent Y
Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
World Health Organization Country Office for Cameroon, Yaoundé.
J Infect Dis. 2017 Jul 1;216(suppl_1):S337-S342. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jix008.
During the poliovirus outbreak in Cameroon from October 2013 to April 2015, the Ministry of Public Health's Expanded Program on Immunization requested technical support to improve mapping of health district boundaries and health facility locations for more effective planning and analysis of polio program data. In December 2015, teams collected data on settlements, health facilities, and other features using smartphones. These data, combined with high-resolution satellite imagery, were used to create new health area and health district boundaries, providing the most accurate health sector administrative boundaries to date for Cameroon. The new maps are useful to and used by the polio program as well as other public health programs within Cameroon such as the District Health Information System and the Emergency Operations Center, demonstrating the value of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's legacy.
在2013年10月至2015年4月喀麦隆脊髓灰质炎病毒爆发期间，公共卫生部的扩大免疫规划请求提供技术支持，以改进卫生区边界和卫生设施位置的地图绘制，以便更有效地规划和分析脊髓灰质炎规划数据。2015年12月，各团队使用智能手机收集了有关定居点、卫生设施及其他地物的数据。这些数据与高分辨率卫星图像相结合，被用于创建新的卫生区域和卫生区边界，为喀麦隆提供了迄今为止最准确的卫生部门行政边界。这些新地图对喀麦隆的脊髓灰质炎规划以及其他公共卫生项目（如地区卫生信息系统和应急行动中心）很有用且被其使用，彰显了全球根除脊髓灰质炎行动遗产的价值。
