Health

Last week, Sussex police in southeast England announced a plan to buy GPS devices for a few people with dementia who are at high risk of getting lost. The police couldn't say how many devices would be bought but have invested 600 pounds, or $935, into the program. Each tracking device costs...

The high-profile marking of John Snow’s bicentenary on the fifteenth of March would have surprised the great man. TheLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the WellcomeTrust, and The Lancet were among the august UK organisations to honour him with events including an exhibition, three...

DKT Ethiopia is an affiliate of DKT International, a non-profit organization that seeks to provide couples with affordable and safe options for family planning and HIV prevention in 19 low- and middle-income countries. In Ethiopia, DKT uses social marketing to distribute three brands of...

The Army has opportunities including set asides for small businesses. The Installation Geospatial Information Services program will provide basic installation, energy and environment geospatial capability across the Army. Awardees will develop standard data and functionality, increase...

In September 2012, Jim Tobias, a Senior GIS Developer with Northrop Grumman in Atlanta GA, was deployed to an onsite mission in Sierra Leone. The request for volunteer came from World Vision and was for a GIS/GPS Specialist to undertake mapping of health and education facilities in Area...

Scientists do not fully understand yet how the H7N9 avian flu virus is spreading in China, or what lies behind the pattern of sporadic human cases. But risk-mapping — of known past factors in the geographical spread of avian flu viruses and human infections — might provide some clues. Maps...

So what does John Snow's street map and health data visualization have to do with maternal and newborn health (MNH)? How can health geography inform policy discussions and accelerate progress on the UN Secretary-General's Every Woman, Every Child campaign? And how might it support national and...

Do you want to know who and what has been potentially impacted by the 2013 West, TX explosion?  This map shows you the potential impact to infrastructure, businesses, and population. The impact zone is defined as a 1-mile ring from the West Fertilizer Plant explosion. The information...

Systems to provide static spatially continuous maps of infectious disease risk and continually updated reports of infectious disease occurrence exist but to-date the two have never been combined. This article addresses this issue as well as novel online data sources, such as social media,...

Symptoms vary from individual to individual. Some people with allergies have severe reactions, whereas others barely notice a thing. A new, free App from the MedUni Vienna’s pollen warning services takes this fact into account and calculates how badly an individual is likely to be affected: a...