Enhancing healthcare planning using population data generated from mobile phone networks in Futaba County after the Great East Japan earthquake
Asaka Higuchi, Hiroki Yoshimura, Hiroaki Saito, Toshiki Abe, Michio Murakami, Tianchen Zhao, Isamu Amir, Naomi Ito, Chika Yamamoto, Saori Nonaka, Toyoaki Sawano, Yuki Shimada, Akihiko Ozaki, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Masaharu Tsubokura · 2024
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After the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster, whole towns in Futaba County, Japan, were emptied. A 2024 study by Asaka Higuchi and co-authors asks how planners can know who actually lives there now. Official resident lists no longer matched real life, which made health care planning hard.
The team used population counts built from mobile phone network data for 2019 and 2020. Those counts were tuned with figures gathered by each town. Day and night populations differed sharply in Okuma and Futaba, with daytime numbers often more than three times the night counts. The team also tested the data by computing emergency transport rates. Their work shows phone data can guide where clinics and ambulances are needed.
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| CREATOR | Asaka Higuchi, Hiroki Yoshimura, Hiroaki Saito, Toshiki Abe, Michio Murakami, Tianchen Zhao, Isamu Amir, Naomi Ito, Chika Yamamoto, Saori Nonaka, Toyoaki Sawano, Yuki Shimada, Akihiko Ozaki, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Masaharu Tsubokura |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 51 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |