A framework for mobile based geospatial public health management

Abstract

With the advancement of communication technology, it is possible to integrate heterogeneous data repositories form the diverse data source. At present most of current public health information systems are lacking the support of on spot dynamic data uploading, visualization, analyzing and decision making. It is essential to integrate public health information system with the geospatial data repositories for on time integrated public health monitoring. GIS plays an important role in public health care for epidemiologic studies. But visualization of integrated public health information on the desktop environment is not sufficient to control emergency situation. With the availability of high quality mobile communication infrastructure it is possible to visualize public health geospatial the mobile device for taking decision at any time from any where. Moreover with the help of mobile device the public data repositories can be updated timely from any location. In this work, a framework has been proposed for efficient management of public health information by integrating geospatial map data with the use of mobile device.