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The Health Mapper:
The HealthMapper is a surveillance and mapping application, developed by WHO, that aims to address critical surveillance information needs across infectious disease programmes at national and global levels.
The HealthMapper is a user-friendly data management and mapping system customized specifically for public health users. The system facilitates data standardization, collection and updating of data on epidemiology and on interventions and provides immediate visualization of data in the form of maps, tables and charts.
The HealthMapper also packages a database of core baseline geographic, demographic and health information, including the location of communities, health care and education facilities, accessibility by road, access to safe water and demography. The system is currently in operation to support a range of infectious diseases in over 60 countries in all regions of WHO.
The HealthMapper has been developed to provide a solution to some of these obstacles, based on these key ideas:
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give the public health user a ready-made standardized digital database containing information considered essential by public health users including boundary maps, environmental factors (such as lakes, rivers, elevation) and vital information on basic population and basic health, school and water infrastructures
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provide the public health user with a simple data management interface into which the user can easily enter and update public health indicators in a standard geographic format
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provide the public health user with user-friendly icon-driven functions to automatically create maps, tables and charts of their data
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make the system able to operate at both local and global levels
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provide it to public health users at low or no cost
For more information please
visit: http://www.who.int/dracunculiasis/eradication/healthmap/en/
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