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. 2023 Jan 12;23(2):908. doi: 10.3390/s23020908

Table 3.

List of applications used in public health.

Reference Application Feature Study Finding Analysis Perspective
[62] Dynamic estimation of individual exposure to air pollution. Spatiotemporal The results show that exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) goes up by 4.3% during the week and by 0.4% on the weekends. Due to the fact that, during the week, people who live in small towns near big cities are exposed to more NO2 because they work in these cities People’s travel patterns
[63] Estimation of human exposure to air pollution Spatiotemporal The results indicate that the home-based method (HBM), which assumes that all individuals spend the entire day at their homes (individuals who are not highly mobile), is still a useful measure for estimating their exposure to air pollution Daily mobility patterns
[64] Controlling the spread of dengue fever Spatiotemporal, SMS The results show that the spatially targeting SMS policy that encourages people to avoid and cancel trips to high importation risk areas can help to reduce the risk of disease spread Spatiotemporal travel patterns
[65,66,67] Controlling and measuring the spatial spread of malaria Spatiotemporal These studies prove that mobile phone data are effective in controlling and estimating the spread of malaria parasites by analyzing the mobility patterns of individuals in countries such as Bangladesh, South Africa, and Madagascar Human travel patterns
[60] Investigation of the correlation between mobility patterns and COVID-19 cases Spatiotemporal The results indicate that a decrease in human movement (a reduction in the number of individual trips) is associated with a decrease in the growth rate of COVID-19 cases Human daily mobility patterns
[68] Real-time predictions of human movement during the Tokyo earthquake Spatiotemporal The proposed assimilation method yields encouraging results for estimating the real-time movement of people during earthquakes Real-time human movement