Do not visit America
Oct 7, 2008 Uncategorized
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HealthMap
I came across a good website today. I see it as a mapping application that gives a global view of disease outbreaks around the world.
It is called HealthMap and It makes use of google maps and some clever design interfaces to bring together data from various sources such as the World Health Organisation, United Nations and others to present in a graphical format validated information regarding the health state of the world.
At first glance, the intensity of markers seems to be concentrated in the North American continent. One could draw a mistaken conclusion that North America has a lot more medical problems than Africa (hence my overly dramatic subject line). I suspect though that the truth is that our monitoring system are less developed than the developed world.
If the mobile penetration rate in this continent is nearly as high as reported, surely this tool could be a lot more accurate were it used by more people. I would imagine integrating this with mobile SMS should not be too difficult ?
Hopefully MobileActive will talk more about this.
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