DiseaseMap
Our team PhoThoHacker creates this project DiseaseMap to help people around the world with internet access take care of themselves and their communities.
People can submit anonymous online reports for sickness of themselves or other, including immediate family members and patients, to contribute to our database, which will use the submitted information to put markers on our map for recent incidents for each disease. Our algorithm will compare the number of recent incidents in an area to its population density to determine the possibility of an outbreak. Different disease will have different time intervals of interest, for example, infectious and highly transmissible diseases like Ebola will have shorter one.
While other currently available maps only have information about a handful numbers of communicable disease, we focus on a more inclusive tracking targets, including noncommunicable diseases such as cancer and obesity, as outbreaks in these ones may indicate serious environmental problems or unhealthy lifestyle in the corresponding regions. Furthermore, our map features age and gender distribution for each disease because it may indicate potential outbreak for a specific vulnerable group of people, e.g. a measles outbreak for children of small ages. The way the map work makes it useful for different community scales, starting from a local level in which reports from their neighbors can help people raise awareness of a disease outbreak nearby. People can also use this map to check the status of their travel destinations.
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