Health

Introduction

Welcome to the OLPC Health Portal. We are an interdisciplinary group of projects working on medical-related software, hardware, and content for the XO.

Getting involved

We're always interested in hearing from, talking with, and collaborating with others with similar interests. No particular experience is required - just a passion for OLPC and the medical field and a willingness to learn. We're all constantly learning from and teaching each other.

If you are interested in what we are doing, most of our discussions take place on the Library mailing list, and the best way to join the conversation is to join the list and introduce yourself.

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.

Health subteams

Health Content

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.

Old stuff to move

• 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, Peru, Uruguay, Argentina, or Thailand), or speak a language from a target country (Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Arabic, Kinyarwanda, French, Spanish, Portuguese 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

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

• David Greisen - health content coordinator - feel free to contact me with any questions at dgreisen at gmail dot com with "OLPC" somewhere in the subject line*
• User:Anna B
• Beth Yakes
• Pascal Scheffers
• Maja Kuilman
• Adam Holt
• Prabhas Pokharel
• Gomes Aurelio
• Arjun Sarwal
• erica frank
• Ed Montgomery - Health science teacher - (some French/Japanese ability) - feel free to contact for assistance with "OLPC" in the subject line*
• Maxim
• Chris Leonard
• Nand Wadhwani
• Josh Hehner - Director of Community Medicine Programs, Para el Mundo (PaM)
• Ian Daniher
• Rafael Ortiz
• Codyl?
• Dr. Ram Dhurjaty (indirectly)
• Steven Burns
• Zdenek Broz
• The XTerm Medical Dictionary Contributors
• Mika Matsuzaki - MPH student/researcher at HSPH
  • A. S. Ivan, M.D.
    • Christoph Champ
    • Y.A. Hamed M.D.
    • Madalina Marin, D.D.S
    • Sam Vaknin
• Paola Lira, MSc Agriculture, Eng Food Science and Vilma Coronado, Lic. Nutriologist.
  • from Nutri Pro Salud (NGO) - Peru
  • Public Health, Alimentary Security, HIV/AIDS/Tuberculosis, Third Grade Desnutrition
  • English, French, Spanish and Peruvian Native Languages (Quechua, Aymara)
  • contact paola@culturalibre.info
• Mel Chua - USB peripheral development (electrical engineer)