POLICI: A web application for visualising and extracting yellow fever vaccination coverage in Africa
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Journal Article
Abstract
Recent yellow fever (YF) outbreaks have highlighted the increasing global risk of urban spread of the disease. In context of recurrent vaccine shortages, preventive vaccination activities require accurate estimates of existing population-level immunity. We present POLICI (POpulation-Level Immunization Coverage – Imperial), an interactive online tool for visualising and extracting YF vaccination coverage estimates in Africa.
We calculated single year age-disaggregated sub-national population-level vaccination coverage for 1950–2050 across the African endemic zone by collating vaccination information and inputting it into a demographic model. This was then implemented on an open interactive web platform.
POLICI interactively displays age-disaggregated, population-level vaccination coverages at the first subnational administrative level, through numerous downloadable and customisable visualisations. POLICI is available at https://polici.shinyapps.io/yellow_fever_africa/.
POLICI offers an accessible platform for relevant stakeholders in global health to access and explore vaccination coverages. These estimates have already been used to inform the WHO strategy to Eliminate Yellow fever Epidemics (EYE).
We calculated single year age-disaggregated sub-national population-level vaccination coverage for 1950–2050 across the African endemic zone by collating vaccination information and inputting it into a demographic model. This was then implemented on an open interactive web platform.
POLICI interactively displays age-disaggregated, population-level vaccination coverages at the first subnational administrative level, through numerous downloadable and customisable visualisations. POLICI is available at https://polici.shinyapps.io/yellow_fever_africa/.
POLICI offers an accessible platform for relevant stakeholders in global health to access and explore vaccination coverages. These estimates have already been used to inform the WHO strategy to Eliminate Yellow fever Epidemics (EYE).
Date Issued
2019-03-07
Date Acceptance
2019-01-23
Citation
Vaccine, 2019, 37 (11), pp.1384-1388
ISSN
0264-410X
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
1384
End Page
1388
Journal / Book Title
Vaccine
Volume
37
Issue
11
Copyright Statement
© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC-BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Subjects
Africa
Outbreak response
Shiny
Vaccination
Visualization
Yellow fever
06 Biological Sciences
07 Agricultural And Veterinary Sciences
11 Medical And Health Sciences
Virology
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-02-13