Abstract

TETAMANTI, Juan Manuel Diez et al. Development of a georeferenced system for the management, mobility and monitoring of primary care in community health. Salud colect. [online]. 2018, vol.14, n.1, pp.121-137. ISSN 1669-2381.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18294/sc.2018.1210.

Community health agents carry out significant actions on the ground to provide prevention and care and bring health services to families. These practices in the field constitute a constant collective mapping process using the knowledge of the territory that the agents possess. Based on intensive fieldwork starting in 2012 in conjunction with local social organizations and health institutions in Brazil and Argentina, the binational project App+Health (App+Salud in Spanish and App+Saúde in Portugués) was initiated. The project’s objective was to develop a monitoring and georeferencing system for community health management in the form of an application for cell phones or tablets with internet access, which would take into account the basic conditions of the environment and movement history of users and connect map updating methodologies using social cartography with free collaborative mapping platforms. As a result, the beta version of App+Health was developed, through a heightened process of exchange of interdisciplinary knowledge.

Keywords : Community Health Services; Geographic Information Systems; Technological Development; Argentina; Brazil.

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