1. CHALLENGE: CHANGING BEHAVIOR
REQUIRES DEFINING A COMMON LANGUAGE
Community: A group of people living
in a specified area and sharing
collectively similar unified
characteristics, interests or goal sets,
denoting common context.
Health: The state of illness or physical
condition.
Community Health: The state of illness
or physical condition of a group of
people living in a specified area and
sharing collectively similar unified
characteristics, interests or goal sets,
denoting common context.
3-4-50
You can do 3 things
to prevent 4 diseases
that kill more than 50%
of our community.
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2. AGREED MEASURES FOR
THE COMMUNITY HEALTH’S WELLBEING
1. Access to Health Resources
2. Utilization of Health Resources
3. Healthy Food Obtainability
A community has the potential for good
health if they have access to health
resources, they utilize health resources, and
affordable healthy food is easy to obtain.
Vice versa:
A community is at risk for poor health if they
don’t have access to health resources, they
don’t utilize health resources, and/or
affordable healthy food is difficult to obtain.
WhatAilsYou.org
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3. SOLUTION: VISUALIZATION TURN DATA INTO
INFORMATION, INFORMATION INTO KNOWLEDGE
In San Diego and elsewhere, community health data don’t typically play a significant role in helping the broader
public understand issues impacting local communities—and themselves. What kind of tool could be built to provide
ongoing health data to help raise public awareness of health issues, engage community members, and catalyze local
action and behavior change?
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4. CREATIVE ACCESSIBLE IDEAS
TO TURN KNOWLEDGE INTO ACTION
In San Diego and elsewhere, community health data doesn’t typically play a significant role in helping the broader
public understand issues impacting local communities—and themselves. What kind of tool could be built to provide
ongoing health data to help raise public awareness of health issues, engage community members, and catalyze local
action and behavior change? Local elected officials in San Diego County and elsewhere lack access to the health data
they need to support their policymaking. Using data supplied through this code-a-thon and other resources, what
kind of tool could be built for mobile and/or computer use that would provide easy and engaging access to health
data (both these data and future updates), thus allowing elected officials to leverage the data for their decisionmaking? [DEMO] http://WhatAilsYou.org
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Charles
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5. FUTURE: REALISTIC PLANS FOR CONTINUED
DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION
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Open Source Semantic Code
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HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
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Mobile First Responsive Design
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Cross Browser Compatibility
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Leverage Existing Google API’s & Tools
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Platform Agnostic
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Lightweight Web Based Single Page
Application (SPA)
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Cloud Data
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