Jaroka Health Map System provides Disease Outbreak through Geographical Representation in Rural Areas

Jaroka health map module enables our system to look up and study the patients in rural areas of Mardan. We have incorporated Google map’s detailed and highly visual information representation into our application to characterize the patients in a better way for analysis. This helps the doctors to explore the patients based on their disease categories along with the refinement option based on patient’s gender.

It is a great achievement for our team as it is first of its kind in Pakistan regarding health.

The live access in only available to the team members of our project and not made public yet. This module is integrated with our Jaroka Tele-Healthcare system. Basically we have used the Google Map APi to embed the Google maps to our own application. Then we retrieve the patient data from Jaroka Tele-Healthcare system database and map the patients visually according to the disease category selected and corresponding to the GPS coordinates of the address location of the patient.

Initially when the page is loaded, it displays the villages located in rural Mardan District, Pakistan and shows the number of patients in each village (refer to the figure below).

Then the user can select the disease category from the drop down list present on the left side and view the patients falling into the category of that particular disease, let’s say we want to see the patients with the disease LRTI/URTI (refer to the following figure).

As here we want to view all the patients falling into this disease category, therefore both male and female patients are mapped along with the children. The differentiation between the patients is presented by using different colors. The map legend is present at the left bottom for reference. Following figure displays all the patients with the disease LRTI/URTI.

Note that we also show a small info box with each patient to show the village, gender and age of the patient. This information presented visually becomes much easier to analyze for the doctors and experts to see the outbreak of diseases in rural area of Pakistan.

Now if you want to see only the female patients falling under the disease category of LRTI/URTI, then following will be the output:

We have also mapped our Hospital onto the map so that the doctors can see the distance of patients’ location from our facility.