InSTEDD: Tools for Outbreak Epidemiology
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Tools for Outbreak Epidemiology: Presentation prepared for the 2nd international conference on Global Health Applications of Handheld Computing Devices in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on Nov 24-25, 2008
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When: 3:30 - 5:00pm. Friday 7th February 2014
Where: Himawari Hotel, Phnom Penh
Organized by: Development Innovations
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With a worldwide penetration rate of over 85%, the mobile phone has become one of the most transformative tools in human history. As mobile communication technologies become less expensive, faster, and more accessible, the ability of people, communities and institutions to share information and knowledge will continue to skyrocket. Specifically for Global Health, the use of mobile communication and network technologies for delivery of health care (mHealth) holds great promise for the future. In low resource settings, community health workers (CHWs) provide a backbone for the delivery of health care services. Often isolated and without significant formal education or training, CHWs can be seen as key connectors between their communities and the formal health care system. In the hands of CHWs, mHealth tools may facilitate effective task shifting; by expanding the pool of human resources, increasing the productivity of health systems, and lowering the cost of services. The reported experience with mHealth suggest a wide range of opportunities exist to improve ease, speed, completeness and accuracy of the work of CHWs. The outcomes associated with these sort of new capabilities can be expected to result in ongoing improvements in performance on key national health indicators. The presentation will examine the state of the art and science-- by describing a systematic review of the literature and citing examples in action -- and provide recommendations focused on the design and development of mHealth tools for use by CHWs to strengthen Global Health interventions.
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This document discusses InSTEDD, an organization that aims to improve global health, safety, and sustainable development through creating collaboration technologies, collaborating with end users, building local capacity, and ensuring usefulness and impact. It provides examples of projects in countries like Haiti, Argentina, and Kenya. InSTEDD supports humanitarian organizations through understanding contexts, creating appropriate technologies, and building local capabilities. Its technology tools are open source, customizable, work on basic phones without internet or literacy requirements, and are low-cost.
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InSTEDD Technologies
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Editor's Notes
- address these challenges by adopting a hybrid disease surveillance approach which fosters cross-disciplinary social network and open collaborative decision making approach in order to facilitate early identification of potential health threats their verification, assessment and investigation in order to recommend measures (public health and others) to control them. Indicator-based surveillance computation of indicators upon which unusual disease patterns to investigate are detected (number of cases, rates, proportion of strains…) Event-based surveillance the detection of public health events based on the capture of ad-hoc unstructured reports issued by formal or informal sources.
- address these challenges by adopting a hybrid disease surveillance approach which fosters cross-disciplinary social network and open collaborative decision making approach in order to facilitate early identification of potential health threats their verification, assessment and investigation in order to recommend measures (public health and others) to control them. Indicator-based surveillance computation of indicators upon which unusual disease patterns to investigate are detected (number of cases, rates, proportion of strains…) Event-based surveillance the detection of public health events based on the capture of ad-hoc unstructured reports issued by formal or informal sources.