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Digital surveys & self-reported health

Connect sensor observations with symptoms, daily experience and household context.

Core framework component; instruments vary by study

Tablet-based field data collection illustrated in the Freiburg lecture, slide 30. Survey Solutions is the platform example shown in that slide.
Tablet-based field data collection illustrated in the Freiburg lecture, slide 30. Survey Solutions is the platform example shown in that slide.

Measurements & outputs

Measurements and outputs

  • Symptoms, morbidity and self-reported health.
  • Household, behavioural and socioeconomic context.
  • Study-specific respiratory, cardiovascular or heat-burden questionnaires.

Research workflow

Research workflow

Select and adapt instruments to the research question, language and local field procedures.

Link repeated responses to the appropriate participant and time window using governed study identifiers.

Interpretation & current limits

Interpretation and limitations

  • Self-report can be affected by recall, interpretation and reporting differences.
  • A digital collection platform does not make instruments interchangeable across sites. Translation and harmonisation need explicit decisions.

Documented applications & research context

Applications and research context

Links identify relevant studies and settings. Configuration and implementation stage differ between projects.

Projects

Population cohorts / CP1Heat & respiratory healthCHIMES (CVD)

Research settings

NounaSiayaSEACO / Segamat

Publications & evidence

Related publications

Read the study-specific methods, results and limitations. The framework paper describes the wider approach.

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Methods in exchange

Related workshops

Preparing the Vadu CHEERS pilotExpanding the HDSS approach

Source & scope

Sources and scientific context

Content and images draw on Sandra Barteit’s Freiburg lecture, The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health: Lessons from Low- and Middle-Income Countries, slides 14, 15, 30, 47, 49. Publication pages provide the corresponding research evidence. Reviewed 12 November 2026.

Images extracted from the lecture retain the original device or research illustration. Product images identify examples used in the source material.

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