The position is for one year at Monash Univeristy in Australia: Geographic Information Systems Officer (Eliminate Dengue Program). Sounds awesome!
- The Conversation
Health officials are already on high alert in the run-up to the Olympics, with the Health Protection Agency having increased its surveillance work to detect any signs of a virus. It has set up a monitoring system of hospital admissions and concerns raised with GPs, to alert staff to the first signs of mass contagion.
The UK is second after Singapore in its risk for avian or H1N1 flu to spread, according to risk analsyt Maplecroft.
- The Independent
The Daily Mail has a (rather poor) map of reports of child sex offense reports by police force in Britain.
- Daily Mail
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at the University of Wisconsin created a project to determine the healthiest counties of every state by ranking them.
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- via All Voices
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/04 at 03:43 AM |
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a new interactive web tool—the NCHHSTP Atlas—that allows users to create maps, charts, and tables using HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted disease (STD) data collected by CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP).
Amont other things it offers data for a number of diseases (AIDS, HIV, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and primary and secondary syphilis and more to come), for a number of years (2000-2009) and unlike other visualization tools, is powered by GIS (ArcGIS for Flex).
- AIDS.gov Blog
A Legionnaire's disease outbreak popped up in Wisconsin. But geography came to the rescue, as did good surveillance. Thomas Haupt an epidemiologist for the Wisconsin Division of Public Health explains how it was tracked to a hospital waterfall.
Well, it started off with our routine surveillance for Legionnaires' disease in Wisconsin. We did notice that within a four week period in this small area we had at least eight cases of Legionnaires' disease. Our follow-up is to ask questions as to where they may have been in the 10 days prior to their onset of illness. At least six of the patients identified that they had been in one particular hospital.
- NPR
On Curacao a GIS is helping health workers keep track of efforts to minimize dengue fever, reports of breeding grounds and the levying of fines against those not taking care in prevention.
- Amigoe
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/17 at 03:00 AM |
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Appreciating the Geographic Information System (GIS) of urban unit of Planning and Development Department for collecting data regarding dengue and other necessary information, he [Chief Minister Punjab, Pakistan, Shahbaz Sharif ] directed the Chief Secretary that the scope of this system be extended to the whole province.
An essay contest for youth on the ways to spread awareness about the disease is planned.
- Business Recorder
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been awarded a $16 million U54 cooperative agreement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a global center of excellence to address the childhood obesity epidemic. The new Johns Hopkins Global Center for Childhood Obesity will emphasize the integration of geospatial analysis with a systems science and transdisciplinary approach to childhood obesity, bringing together basic science, epidemiology, nutrition, medicine, engineering and environmental and social policy research, among other fields, in an unprecedented, innovative way.
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Home health montioring is growing. GeoNovo is readying a new system that tracks and monitors and sends data indoors and out.
The range of RSP-2xx devices will meet all the requirements of healthcare users through an unrivalled combination of technology and firmware functionality including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, a 3D accelerometer for fall detection and motion sensing and a large colour screen. It will also achieve a ‘first’ for a product of this type in that it will be able to provide indoor tracking to complement its excellent outdoor GPS performance.
Working both within and outside the home, the RSP-200 will automatically chose the best communications option and provide unrivalled telecare and personal protection monitoring as well as connectivity to, and data capture from, home telehealth systems.
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/14 at 04:25 AM |
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