ReGLaN-Health & Logistics
Project Initiator: Gerhard Ackermann
The project ReGLaN-Health & Logistics is based on the idea of the southafrican Gerhard Ackermann, which aims to optimse the health maintenance in rural areas in South Africa. Medical doctors, logistics, softwareengineers and researchers in communications and information technologies are working together to gain an approach for a solution to optimise the health service delivery in rural areas.
Within the group there is a close cooperation between ReGLaN-Health & Logistics and the area of research of communications and information technologies with Prof. Dr. Dr. Marlien Herselman as central contact person.
Altogether the project aims for a development of a spatial decision support system with tutorial components (epidemiological early warning system - UNISPACE III Recommendations - AT6).
Early Warning and Response
An Early Warning and Response System (EWARS) focuses on risk mapping for epidemiological early warning and logisitical optimized response according to risk. In the current status of EWARS will be under the umbrella of United Nations, Action Team 6.
EWARS is a Decision Support System (DSS). Risk and Resource are considered to be spatially distributed. Locations are stored in a Geographic Information System (GIS). Combining the concepts of a DSS and GIS is denoted as a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS)
EWARS = GIS + DSS = SDSS
The project ReGLaN-Health & Logistics is based on the idea of the southafrican Gerhard Ackermann, which aims to optimse the health maintenance in rural areas in South Africa. Medical doctors, logistics, softwareengineers and researchers in communications and information technologies are working together to gain an approach for a solution to optimise the health service delivery in rural areas.
Within the group there is a close cooperation between ReGLaN-Health & Logistics and the area of research of communications and information technologies with Prof. Dr. Dr. Marlien Herselman as central contact person.
Altogether the project aims for a development of a spatial decision support system with tutorial components (epidemiological early warning system - UNISPACE III Recommendations - AT6).
Early Warning and Response
An Early Warning and Response System (EWARS) focuses on risk mapping for epidemiological early warning and logisitical optimized response according to risk. In the current status of EWARS will be under the umbrella of United Nations, Action Team 6.
EWARS is a Decision Support System (DSS). Risk and Resource are considered to be spatially distributed. Locations are stored in a Geographic Information System (GIS). Combining the concepts of a DSS and GIS is denoted as a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS)
EWARS = GIS + DSS = SDSS
Implementation and support for implementation will be realized in OpenSource and OpenContent, so that developing countries can use, apply and modify the SDSS according to individual needs.
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