Using Technology to Control Numerous Diseases in Schools & Households
These days, the entire world relies on the latest technology for their day-to-day activities no matter whether they are at work place or at home. Technologies bring enormous productivities, allowing people to save their huge time, resources, energy, money and delivering real-time response capabilities.
When it comes to talking about the global health, a lot of different health programs are searching for different ways to use new technology for monitoring and evaluation, exchanging critical data and information and general logistical purposes. Using advanced technology like smartphone and its applications, we can severely boost the impact problems among populations in need.
The government can implement a lot of technology-based solutions to control varied diseases like Malaria, chikungunya, Elephantiasis, etc. in schools and other residential areas and make each and every city disease free.
Today, you would find numerous mobile-based applications that are helping cities to control and inspect such diseases, so let’s check-out such different applications that are helping in controlling and inspection diseases in schools and residential areas:
VBD-Tracker is the most useful mobile application, enabling government health officers and inspectors to control and inspect health diseases in municipal schools and residential areas. The application has been made specially to control vector-borne diseases that are transmitting in different areas of the city and affecting more and more people.
Through this application, the government can provide sanitation facilities, primary education and help officers to generate health reports in schools and residential areas using their smartphone. The application is developed by Civic Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in order to report different diseases cases through the smartphone, making sure that prevalent outbreaks are identified instantly and give immediate help to sufferers.
Health officers can conduct a regular health check-up of students, gathering important information about the school. Along with schools, they are visiting different societies and residential areas to take a survey about diseases so that they can prevent health and safety by ensuring that everything at residential areas is in good condition. VBD-Tracker will help health officers:
• To collect data and information about different schools
• Visit household in order to gather family member data and information about people, who suffers from the disease.
• Allow officers to fill entire public health return form, entering all the answers of questions.
• Health officers can click pictures of schools’ RO Plants, Water Storage Tank, Drinking Water spot/dispenser, toilets, etc.
• Allow to create survey report filling huge information like Survey reason type, TPM day, Survey no, Fever survey and more.
After VBD-Tracker, TrackTheBite is the best real-time tracking on mosquito infestation application that launched in New Delhi in order to mark World Mosquito Day. The application can help in preventing and controlling of vector-borne diseases like malaria and dengue.
The application is specially designed to help people to be informed about the threat of Dengue and Malaria in their location; therefore, helping them take precautions against diseases. It can help people to locate different areas, where the risks of Malaria and dengue are high. Using this application, users can get:
• Get tips and trivia on how to stay safe
• Allow people to report infestation in their area.
• Inform Friends and Relatives about an infestation in their location.
Mosquito Repellent is an application that will help you to save yourself and family members from mosquito-borne diseases. Users just need to open an application in their device in the room and application will generate ultrasonic sounds that repel mosquitos. Based on scientific research, its ultrasonic sound effects on mosquitoes.
This app is based on scientific research of effects of ultrasonic sound effects on mosquitoes. this app uses your device as an electronic instrument to generate ultrasonic sound effects it is safe from chemicals used in chemical insect repellents.
Moreover, this application automatically adjusts the attack model even at high frequencies, which humans cannot hear; therefore, it is right choice to relax and sleep as it doesn’t interfere.
These are the three different types of mobile applications that can be used to control and inspect various diseases like Malaria, Dengue, elephantiasis, Yellow Fever and more. By comparing these three applications, we came to know that VBD-Tracker is the best mobile-based application, enabling government health officers to inspect, control and make reports on it.
