Leeds Lifeband - COVID-19 - saving lives, proposing living

仅使用基于智能手机的应用程序可能会使特定的社会子群体（老年人、处境不利和脆弱群体、青年）被数字排斥在外。人口覆盖率的这种差距将增加这些群体的风险，并严重破坏国民保健制度方案的全面性。该项目将通过提供一种廉价、低技术和高度安全的腕带替代方案，提供更完整的感染率图片，解决NHS/PHE接触追踪智能手机应用程序产生的数据缺口；以及老年人和学龄儿童等人口群体面临的风险（以及来自这些群体的风险）。经同意，位置/邻近数据还可以使用大规模数据分析进行研究、分析和建模。这将产生流行病学见解，例如不同的人口亚群如何受到COVID的影响；政府指导方针如何创造环境挑战或机遇，以及当地缓解措施的有效性。腕带技术在即时追踪环境之外还有潜在的用例，例如为智慧城市规划提供信息，减少环境/更广泛的人口健康负担（cotril and Derrible, 2015）。该项目将在恢复过程中支持区域经济，因为只需要对受感染的个人及其接触者进行隔离。

The exclusive use of a smartphone-based application risks the digital exclusion of particular societal sub-groups (older people, disadvantaged and vulnerable groups, youth). Such gaps in population coverage will compound risk to these groups and seriously undermine the comprehensiveness of the NHS programme. This project will address these gaps in data arising from the NHS/PHE contact tracing smartphone application by providing a cheap, low-tech and highly secure wristband alternative providing a more complete picture of infection rates; and risks to (and from) population groups such as older people and school childrenBy consent, the location/proximity data will also enable research, analysis and modelling using large-scale data analytics. This will generate epidemiological insights such as how different population sub-groups are impacted by COVID; how government guidelines create contextual challenges or opportunities, and the effectiveness of local mitigation measures.The wristband technology has potential use-cases beyond the immediate tracing context, for example informing smart-city planning and reducing environmental/broader population health burdens (Cottril and Derrible, 2015). The project will support the regional economy in the process of recovery, given that only infected individuals and their contacts will need to quarantine.