Health

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Introduction

Welcome to the new health content page. We are working to create a comprehensive set of health modules that are localized to each of the target countries. Over the next several months we will be working to find partners to donate content appropriate for the laptop. We will use that content as a starting point, localizing and extending it to meet the needs of the children in the target countries.

Effort Areas

  • Health Reference Libary
    • Port of the XTerm Medical Database
    • Various relevant wikislices
    • Hesperian Documents like "Where there is no Doctor"
    • Relevant multimedia
  • TeleHealth Parameterization Activity
    • Pictograph based multiple-choice questions
    • "click where it hurts..."
    • Parameterize medical/health information into machine parseable xml
  • TeleHealth Module
    • USB Peripheral providing vital sign information to the XO

Volunteer

We need volunteers! We especially need people who have public health experience in a target country (Libya, Rwanda, Nigeria, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, or Thailand), or speak a language from a target country (Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Arabic, Kinyarwanda, French, or Thai).

If you are interested in volunteering, please check out Getting Started for info on how to contribute, and add your name to the volunteers list. Feel free to contact David Greisen with any questions at dgreisen at gmail dot com with "OLPC" somewhere in the subject line



Partners

Over the next several months we will be working to find health organizations that are willing to donate content to the OLPC library. As we confirm these organizations, they and their contributions will be listed under "Confirmed Partners." If you have an idea for a potential content partner, please list it, along with a brief description under "Suggested Partners."

Confirmed Partners

  • Hesperian Foundation - Publisher of such books as "Where There is no Doctor", see Adapting Hesperian Books -- send us CDs containing In Design layouts for
    • WTND in English and Spanish
    • Water for Life
    • Sanitation and Cleanliness
    • Pesticides are Poison

Suggested Partners

Local organizations, both official and NGOs, will have a mixed set of materials targeting the local population, which presumably has already the linguistic and cultural factors incorporated, so that would be the first stop to source material. Sometimes you can find the dated material side by side with the latest ideas about health and education.

A general list of International Organizations and Foreign Government Agencies compiled by USA's FDA

  • medecins sans frontieres [1]

To Do

  1. Get wiki, mailing list and content repository up and running
  2. Recruit contributors and coordinators
  3. Solicit content donations
  4. Develop content not donated
  5. Localize content
  6. translate content


OLPC - Health Project Participants

If you wish to be part of OLPC - Health efforts, please add your name below and join the Library mailing list

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