Re: [Health] [Health-jamaica] Ebola, MERS, Zika, N.N. and GNU Health

[Luis Falcon]

Hi Chris, team !
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 20:44:16 +0700
"Christoph H. Larsen" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> Absolutely, Luis, OSM is the way to go. Integrations abound and, what
> is more, mappings and trackings can be easily exported, edited,
> shared, etc. My team did not only map all district surveillance teams
> in Sierra Leone during the EVD crisis, but also mapped road
> conditions, relevant infrastructure, etc. on the go, as we used
> mobile applications to gather a hodgepodge of highly diverse data.
> One single application (and its plugins) quickly proved to be
> enormously useful, and that was osmand (http://osmand.net). As you
> can use maps offline, and only depend on the satellite for
> geolocation, seemingly complex things were very easily accomplished,
> tracking done, edits added and maps displayed via geo-plugins to our
> preferred collaborative reporting and wiki tool. (And this would
> equally apply to CMSs, and of course, with a bit of fine-tuning, GNU
> Health.) It's fun and can be completed with graphs and dashboard
> using additional FLOSS software.
> Stay well!
> 
Excellent information, as usual ! Thanks a lot for sharing, and let's
work for even tighter integration with OSM for 3.2

I'm  thinking on writing a plugin that feeds directly the information
from GNU Health (eg, Domiciliary Units, epidemio, demographics, ... )
to some of the fine Free Software tools around OSM.

You're the expert on this area, so thoughts are most welcome !

Luis
> Chris
> 
> 
> On 05/02/16 02:10, Luis Falcon wrote:
> > Dear Roberto, Armand and team
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 11:43:40 -0200
> > Roberto Novaes <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  
> >> Dear Friends,
> >>
> >> I am very glad to participate in this discussion, and I hope to
> >> contribute to it on the limits of my knowledge. I am facing this
> >> discussion as an opportunity to learn from experts on the subject.
> >>
> >> I would like to explain in a very brief way our specific plans. I
> >> do not consider myself able to discuss the general subject of NTD.
> >> We have been studying and trying solutions related to Aedes
> >> control and related diseases surveillance.
> >>
> >> First, they involve the georreferencing of ovitraps, de colection
> >> of the ovipositioning surfaces and the counting of eggs. We are
> >> following the model currently in use in many Brazilian cities and
> >> proposed first by CDC and improved later. This model is know in
> >> the literature as Reiter model
> >> (http://www.ovitrampas.com.br/downloads/artigos/REITER-AMADOR-COLON-Enhancement-of-the-CDC-ovitrap-with-hay-infusions-for-daily-monitoring-of-Aedes-Aegypti-populations.pdf).
> >>
> >> Second, we are storing those data on a simple module using Tryton
> >> and GNU Health. Each DU has a one-to-many relationship with an
> >> ovitrap. Each ovitrap has a one-to-many relationship with
> >> inspection. Each inspection has many-to-one relationship with an
> >> agent, a date and an egg count. A rough sketch
> >> (https://www.dropbox.com/s/af09vx76vst0b8t/Simple_Ovitrap_EER.jpg?dl=0).
> >>
> >> After that, we are still manually exporting the data to a csv file
> >> and creating a layer for each week on QGIS and producing heatmaps.
> >> This procedure is cumbersome, but as a proof of concept it is
> >> working fine. In the city of Mariana/MG
> >> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana,_Minas_Gerais), where we are
> >> running our pilot project we have positioned 30 traps that monitor
> >> 7000 inhabitants. We have been so far able to plan, in agreement
> >> with the municipal administration, a number of control actions
> >> that would not have happened without that data.
> >>  
> > I think we should take advantage of GNU Health integration with
> > OpenStreetMap , as we do with the Domiciliary Units and the DU
> > surveys for Dengue.
> > There is a nice link at OpenStreeMap GIS integration[1], that I hope
> > you find it interesting.
> >
> > To me, we should really take the advantage of the existing
> > integration of GNU Health with OpenStreetMap, to generate different
> > types of representation (health events, demographics, etc.. ) . This
> > also would allow cooperation with other organizations, such as OSM
> > HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)[2]
> >
> > We would need an expert in the GIS area. I think Roberto knows a lot
> > about GIS, so please let us know your thoughts and advice.
> >  
> >> This data in conjunction with data gathered on the domiciliar
> >> inspections would make a great Aedes surveillance system.
> >>
> >> Problems we have been facing so far:
> >> Tryton does not have a geospatial set of fields. We could work to
> >> implement them (point, polyline, polygon).
> >> Although Tryton has a nice JS client, I think a complete offline
> >> client would be better, because we would not have to have internet
> >> connections or worry about cellphone bills.
> >>
> >> Dr. Christoph has "introduced" me to wq.io. It seems to be a great
> >> piece of software and a way to build a simple offline "form" to
> >> collect data.
> >>
> >> I would also like to stress Dr. Luis idea regarding Aedes control:
> >>  
> >>> In the dengue case, we keep the current functionality
> >>> of health_ntd_dengue lab tests, guidelines, etc.. . It will have a
> >>> dependency on health_vector_aedes, which will hold the aedes
> >>> species known to transmit diseases, and other generic info valid
> >>> to that genus. We would move the current DU survey functionality
> >>> to the health_vector_aedes module.  
> >>
> >> I like this idea very much. I think we could have different modules
> >> for different kinds of vector surveys. I think GNU Health/Tryton.
> >>  
> > Thank you for bringing up the idea ! I am creating a task for this,
> > so we can have the new module in Health 3.2
> >
> >
> > 1.- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GIS_software
> > 2.- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team
> >
> > All the best
> > Luis
> >  
> >> That is all!
> >>
> >> Thanks for the interesting points!
> >>
> >> Roberto Novaes
> >> www.silexsistemas.com.br
> >>
> >>  
> >  
>