Health Database

Database and Activity Goals

• To provide a reference library for educational purposes
• To be a guide for first aid and treatment in emergency situations

All of the goals boil down to this one hope: to elongate and improve life

Expectations

• Will be helpful in situations where trained medical personnel are unavailable, overworked, or unreachable.
  • Not to be used in place of a doctor or other person trained in medicine

Modules

Tentative List

Please debate modifications/additions on the Discussion page

• Physiology
  • Parts of the Body
  • Body Systems/functions
• Epidemiology
  • "Germs"
  • Vectors
• First Aid
• Childhood Disease and Prevention
  • Childhood Diseases
  • Prevention
  • Mitigation/Treatment (as applicable)
  • Vaccines
• Sanitation/hygiene
  • Hand Washing
  • Other personal hygiene
  • Food Handling
  • Healthy Home
  • Clean Water
• Diet
• General Reference Texts

Info

• Each of these Modules, with corresponding submodules, will have to be created, localized and translated for each country and language.
• Some will need more localization than others. For example "hand washing" will need localization for urban, peri-urban, and rural areas, while "childhood disease and prevention" will need extensive localization for each area based on it most common childhood illnesses and best-of-breed prevention techniques.
• In addition to localization, each module will need to have appropriate material.
• If you are interested in coordinating one of these modules, please contact David Greisen.

Content types

We are looking for all sorts of health content for each module:

• Picture books/children's stories
• Simple computer games to encourage healthy behavior
• Other computer-based activities taking advantage of the laptop's interactive capabilities
• Educational animations (See also: Mentoring#Ideas)
• Activities that can be performed in "real life," such as science experiments, community projects
• Lesson plans for teachers
• Teacher education material
• Textbooks
• Reference books

Progress

• Ian Daniher has collected some diagnosis aids used by a local hospital.
• Ian Daniher has been corresponding with Aurelian, creator of XTerm Medical Dictionary, and he has graciously offered to license the database allow OLPC and direct affiliates access and an ability to freely distribute it.
• User:Pascal has started communication with the Hesperian Foundation, which provides elegantly written medical manuals to third world individuals.

Problems

• Legal liability, a hefty disclaimer may be needed.
• Doing this with limited medical background - can we find a doctor willing to help us out on this one?
• Testing - this will need plenty of testing to make sure everything is accurate and working before it is distributed
• Timeline - will likely take longer than will the TeleHealth Module to be completed
  • Can a basic version be completed in time to be distributed with the MP of the TeleHealth Module?