ITU-T Recommendations

Recommendation ITU-T Y.4233 specifies the information and communication technology (ICT) implementation framework of smart public health management in smart and sustainable cities (SSCs).
SSCs are capable of fostering data-driven smart applications to manage limited resources and implement them to thwart the advent of future pandemics of a similar magnitude to the COVID-19 pandemic. Linking SSCs with public health frameworks to manage future pandemics and epidemics and to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (SDG 3: Global health, SDG 1: Poverty eradication and SDG 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable), and to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction is a challenge and serves a dual purpose. With the utilization of appropriate emergency communication and public health frameworks, it will become easier to develop models to predict the spread of diseases, ascertain the source of illnesses, coordinate lockdowns, detect and report symptoms, identify viral strains and provide remote assistance as required with limited human interaction, through an infrastructure based on the Internet of things.
This Recommendation is based on the U4SSC report entitled "Smart public health emergency management and ICT implementations" (listed as U4SSC-2 in the bibliography) and its structure is as follows: it starts with an analysis of the public health context and of corresponding frameworks and returns a generic public health framework, which specifies a pandemic's lifecycle. This generic framework is then interconnected with the SSC and with city resilience. Further, it depicts with unified modelling language (UML) diagrams how this framework can be executed within the SSC environment and highlights the SSC components that play a role in this execution.