Publications by authors named "Nivan Ferreira Junior"

It is crucial to develop spatiotemporal analysis tools to mitigate risks during a pandemic. Many dashboards encountered in the literature do not consider how the geolocation characteristics and travel patterns may influence the spread of the virus. This work brings an interactive tool that is capable of crossing information about mobility patterns, geolocation characteristics and epidemiologic variables.

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COVID-19 is responsible for the deaths of millions of people around the world. The scientific community has devoted its knowledge to finding ways that reduce the impact and understand the pandemic. In this work, the focus is on analyzing electronic health records for one of the largest public healthcare systems globally, the Brazilian public healthcare system called (SUS).

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Given the recent outbreak of Sars-CoV-2, several countries started to seek different strategies to control contamination and minimize fatalities, which are usually the primary objectives for all strategies. Secondary objectives are related to economic factors, therefore ensuring that society would be able is to keep its essential activities and avoid supply disruptions. This paper presents an application of anonymized mobile phone users' location data to estimate population flow amongst cities with an origin-destination matrix.

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