Web based GPS and GIS model for rural areas

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pardeep Kumar Arora ◽  
Rajesh Bhatia ◽  
Shashi Parkash ◽  
Bikaram Jit Singh Sekhon
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Gis Model

The promise of Telemedicine in Pakistan: A Systematic Review (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Sarosh Mahdi ◽  
Franceso Amenta ◽  
Raheel Allana ◽  
Gopi Battineni 3rd ◽  
Tamsal Khalid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Region ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Study Characteristics ◽  
Implementation Costs ◽  
Newcastle Ottawa Scale ◽  
Good Support ◽  
Ottawa Scale

BACKGROUND Telemedicine is a medical practice of assisting remote patients and it has great potential in developing countries like Pakistan. Telemedicine solves the logistical barriers, deliver good support to weak health systems and unite worldwide networks of healthcare personals. Because of high implementation costs, yet it is not possible to adopt telehealth systems for low and middle-income nations. OBJECTIVE In this systematic review, we aim to present an update revision of region-based telemedical services in Pakistan. METHODS Libraries such as PubMed (Medline), CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), Scopus (EMBASE) and Google Scholar were used for document search. Newcastle Ottawa Scale (NOS) is adopted to conduct study quality. Majority of the studies (n-8) included in the review were of high quality as assessed through the Newcastle Ottawa scale. Selected study characteristics further analyzed based on different parameters such as publication year, sample size, study design, methods, motivation and outcomes. RESULTS Search produced 955 articles and 11 items were ultimately selected to conduct the review. These studies further characterized as region-based telemedicine implementation. Out of 11, eight studies were conducted in the urban region and three studies were conducted in the rural areas of Pakistan. Majority of studies produced evidence on telehealth interventions by smartphone services like SMS, apps and web-based telemedicine. CONCLUSIONS Telehealth interventions like mHealth, eHealth, telemedicine, and telepharmacy are starting to evaluate for the last two decades but certainly needs to become an integral part of Pakistan's current health infrastructure.

scholarly journals Deployment of a Web-based Control Laboratory Using HTML5

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (07) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongcheng Lei ◽  
Wenshan Hu ◽  
Hong Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Networked Control System ◽  
Web Browsers ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Online Laboratory ◽  
3D Engine

<div class="WordSection1"><p><span style="font-size: 10px;">With the recent achievements in Internet and communication technology and its utilization in online laboratory, remote learning and online laboratory are made possible in the last few decades. This not only provides learning opportunities for people living in rural areas of developing countries, but also offers simple alternatives for those who are already able to access educational resources. The evolution of Web technologies makes it relatively easy to facilitate laboratory deployments, thus, more and more different online laboratory platforms emerge. However, the use of Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML5) and related standards such as WebGL and CSS3 in experimental platform, which is future trends and provides full-featured environment, is rare so far. This paper introduces a new HTML5 version of Networked Control System Laboratory (NCSLab), which has been developing for over 10 years since 2006. The 3D version of NCSLab has been developing for almost 5 years in Wuhan University (WHU), whose rendering solution is changed from Flash 3D engine to HTML5 recently. Therefore, Flash player plug-in is eliminated to provide better user experience for users since most of the mainstream web browsers are compatible with HTML5.</span></p></div>

Rural Palliative Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 670-681
Author(s):  
Richard A. Taylor ◽  
J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom ◽  
Erin R. Currie ◽  
Macy Stockdill ◽  
Marie A. Bakitas
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Symptom Control ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Palliative Care Services ◽  
Care Training

Access to palliative care remains challenging to those living in rural areas across the globe. This disparity of care leaves many without critically important palliative care services across their illness trajectory, especially in its final stages. Creative strategies to meet the palliative care needs of rural patients such as telehealth, videoconferencing specialists’ consultation, and web-based resources exist. Using these strategies where available can address some palliative care disparities and access to care in rural areas that were previously absent. Developing clinical capacity of rural clinicians through enhanced education in primary palliative care in training programs, expanding services with the use of nurse practitioners, and using palliative care–trained community lay health workers are also strategies to improve access. Additionally, by developing rural hospital providers’ knowledge and skills to provide primary palliative care in tasks such as establishing care goals, communication, and basic symptom control may prevent many transfers to academic centers miles away. Through ongoing education and primary palliative care training and innovations in bringing specialty care to rural areas, “palliative care everywhere” will soon be a reality.

Elaboration of a complex GIS application in a catchment area

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (9) ◽  
pp. 133-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Németh ◽  
J. Szabó ◽  
L. Pásztor ◽  
Zs. Bakacsi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Catchment Area ◽  
Lake Balaton ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Recreation Area ◽  
Complex Project ◽  
Authentic Data

Rearrangement of land resources after political changes has not yet been finished in Hungary. It is almost impossible to collect information necessary for planning activities on outer areas of settlements. The data are distributed among various organizations and can be found in diverse forms or there are no available data at all. However water quality protection has become legally ordered concerning municipal activities around Lake Balaton which is considered as the most important recreation area and tourist target in Hungary and is also affected by a number of factors providing sources of environmental conflicts. Settlements in a catchment area (Tetves Creek) on the southern shoreline of Lake Balaton in Central Hungary tendered a complex project for collecting sources of authentic data of the Hungarian rural areas along with systematizing and saving these data in a uniform GIS. An application using Autodesk MapGuide Program for Internet realization was developed. The implemented web-based system can be used in Internet and Intranet environments.

scholarly journals A Web-based spatial decision supporting system for land management and soil conservation

Solid Earth ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 903-928 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Terribile ◽  
A. Agrillo ◽  
A. Bonfante ◽  
G. Buscemi ◽  
M. Colandrea ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Soil Conservation ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
End Users ◽  
Spatial Decision Support System ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Study Results

Abstract. Today it is evident that there are many contrasting demands on our landscape (e.g. food security, more sustainable agriculture, higher income in rural areas, etc.) as well as many land degradation problems. It has been proved that providing operational answers to these demands and problems is extremely difficult. Here we aim to demonstrate that a spatial decision support system based on geospatial cyberinfrastructure (GCI) can address all of the above, so producing a smart system for supporting decision making for agriculture, forestry, and urban planning with respect to the landscape. In this paper, we discuss methods and results of a special kind of GCI architecture, one that is highly focused on land management and soil conservation. The system allows us to obtain dynamic, multidisciplinary, multiscale, and multifunctional answers to agriculture, forestry, and urban planning issues through the Web. The system has been applied to and tested in an area of about 20 000 ha in the south of Italy, within the framework of a European LIFE+ project (SOILCONSWEB). The paper reports – as a case study – results from two different applications dealing with agriculture (olive growth tool) and environmental protection (soil capability to protect groundwater). Developed with the help of end users, the system is starting to be adopted by local communities. The system indirectly explores a change of paradigm for soil and landscape scientists. Indeed, the potential benefit is shown of overcoming current disciplinary fragmentation over landscape issues by offering – through a smart Web-based system – truly integrated geospatial knowledge that may be directly and freely used by any end user (www.landconsultingweb.eu). This may help bridge the last very important divide between scientists working on the landscape and end users.

Web-Based Rural Road Asset-Management System

2003 ◽  
Vol 1855 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-111
Author(s):  
Pannapa Herabat ◽  
Dussadee Satirasetthavee ◽  
Adjo Amekudzi
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Management System ◽  
Data Management System ◽  
Road User ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Rural Road ◽  
Asset Management System

The Department of Accelerated Rural Development in Thailand has undergone major structural reforms according to the direction of National Economic and Social Development Plan 9, which decentralizes government authority into subdistrict levels. The goals for subdistrict level management are to improve the quality of life and the living standard through economic and social development in rural areas. By restructuring the maintenance practice and policy to complement the new orientation of the plan and to enable the proper planning of rural road asset maintenance activities, a systematic rural road asset-management system was implemented to achieve the goal of the subdistrict and central management. A web-based technology was used to provide an easy linkage between the central and the remote offices for both network and project-level management. The organizational barriers, development process, tools and technology, data integration, and benefits of the improved data-management system are discussed. The developed system includes data regarding pavement, bridge, drainage system, traffic sign, pavement marking, and vegetation problems. How web-based information technology can be applied to an asset-management system is discussed. The benefits are measured for productivity, profitability, and rural road user effects.

scholarly journals Using Web-Based Pin-Drop Maps to Capture Activity Spaces Among Young Adults Who Use Drugs in Rural Areas: Cross-Sectional Survey (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Luke Fenimore Cooper ◽  
Natalie D Crawford ◽  
Regine Haardöerfer ◽  
Nadya Prood ◽  
Carla Jones-Harrell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Euclidean Distance ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Street Address ◽  
Participant Characteristics

BACKGROUND Epicenters of harmful drug use are expanding to US rural areas, with rural young adults bearing a disproportionate burden. A large body of work suggests that place characteristics (eg, spatial access to health services) shape vulnerability to drug-related harms among urban residents. Research on the role of place characteristics in shaping these harms among rural residents is nascent, as are methods of gathering place-based data. OBJECTIVE We (1) analyzed whether young rural adults who used drugs answered self-administered Web-based mapping items about locations where they engaged in risk behaviors and (2) determined the precision of mapped locations. METHODS Eligible individuals had to report recently using opioids to get high; be aged between 18 and 35 years; and live in the 5-county rural Appalachian Kentucky study area. We used targeted outreach and peer-referral methods to recruit participants. The survey asked participants to drop a pin in interactive maps to mark where they completed the survey, and where they had slept most; used drugs most; and had sex most in the past 6 months. Precision was assessed by (1) determining whether mapped locations were within 100 m of a structure and (2) calculating the Euclidean distance between the pin-drop home location and the street address where participants reported sleeping most often. Measures of central tendency and dispersion were calculated for all variables; distributions of missingness for mapping items and for the Euclidean distance variable were explored across participant characteristics. RESULTS Of the 151 participants, 88.7% (134/151) completed all mapping items, and ≥92.1% (&gt;139/151) dropped a pin at each of the 4 locations queried. Missingness did not vary across most participant characteristics, except that lower percentages of full-time workers and peer-recruited participants mapped some locations. Two-thirds of the pin-drop sex and drug use locations were less than 100 m from a structure, as were 92.1% (139/151) of pin-drop home locations. The median distance between the pin-drop and street-address home locations was 2.0 miles (25th percentile=0.8 miles; 75th percentile=5.5 miles); distances were shorter for high-school graduates, staff-recruited participants, and participants reporting no technical difficulties completing the survey. CONCLUSIONS Missingness for mapping items was low and unlikely to introduce bias, given that it varied across few participant characteristics. Precision results were mixed. In a rural study area of 1378 square miles, most pin-drop home addresses were near a structure; it is unsurprising that fewer drug and sex locations were near structures because most participants reported engaging in these activities outside at times. The error in pin-drop home locations, however, might be too large for some purposes. We offer several recommendations to strengthen future research, including gathering metadata on the extent to which participants zoom in on each map and recruiting participants via trusted staff.

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