Integrating Kindergartener-Specific Questionnaires With Citizen Science to Improve Child Health

Frontiers in Public Health

Peng Jia¹ 

关键词: child health;    child abuse;    kindergartener;    interactive questionnaire;    geographic information systems;    volunteered geographic information;    crowdsourcing science;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2018.00236

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

More importantly, this kindergartener-specific questionnaire should be popularized in a modern way at a large scale for catching those negative cases we intend to prevent from occurring in every kid's life. Furthermore, child abuse experiences would be more preventable if the risks identified could be timely mapped and made available and searchable to the public. Traditional questionnaire-based health survey tools and studies have been still implemented in a limited scope, even employing modern technologies (e.g., wearable sensors and smart phones), which can only ease the process of data collection to some extent. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have significantly improved storage, integration, representation, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data at large scales (8). Some GIS-based sex offender registration and notification systems have been developed to register crime in many countries over the past two decades, since the United States' first national-level sex offender registration law was passed in 1994 (9). For example, in the US Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW) which provides information to the public on the whereabouts of registered sex offenders across the country, entering an address, and selecting a distance to search for offenders by location can return all offenders with a registered address that is within the specified radius around the location searched. Nowadays, moreover, a NSOPW mobile app is available to provide users with information about registered sex offenders that have residential, employment, or school addresses that are within a close proximity (0.25-, 0.5-, or 1-mile) of the mobile device running the app. The US sex offender registration and notification now consists of individual registries and public registry websites operated by all 50 States, the District of Columbia, four of the principal US Territories, as well as over 70 federally-recognized Indian Tribes. These jurisdiction-level systems are linked in a national public registry website (available to the public) and also in a more detailed law enforcement database, both of which are administered through the US Department of Justice.

【 授权许可】

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