Map Design for Public Health Emergencies: a Novel Conceptual Framework for Thematic Content Selection

Public health emergencies always lead to serious consequences which affect a lot on human and socioeconomic progress. It is essential that governments regional commissions guide the public toward self-protection better arranged social production during epidemic outbreaks spreads. According need of risk communication information disclosure, existing studies for COVID-19 maps visualization applications are conducive predicting future trend pandemic, mitigating harmful effect wellbeing by leading effective intervention policy measures. However, unsettled tasks remain comprehensive organization information, expression data requirement, systematic theoretical framework as standard map design emergencies. To close research gaps, this paper proposes conceptual with three-dimensional spatiotemporal-logic structure foundation thematic content selection, also good basis determining approaches design. enhances validity legibility maps’ couple features processes an epidemic. Then, using outbreak in Shenzhen, China, example, illustrates how apply selecting maps, explains specific ways transform into objects cartographic representation proper principles modes. our knowledge, very first study bring fore, it thus believed shed fresh lights