The HealthMapper

Monitoring seasonal transmission patterns of malaria with the HealthMapper: one click on a region displays the related historical data by week.

The HealthMapper is a surveillance and mapping application, developed by WHO, that aims to address critical surveillance information needs across infectious disease programmes at national and global levels.

The HealthMapper is a user-friendly data management and mapping system customized specifically for public health users. The system facilitates data standardization, collection and updating of data on epidemiology and on interventions and provides immediate visualization of data in the form of maps, tables and charts.

The HealthMapper also packages a database of core baseline geographic, demographic and health information, including the location of communities, health care and education facilities, accessibility by road, access to safe water and demography. The system is currently in operation to support a range of infectious diseases in over 60 countries in all regions of WHO. Key infectious disease programmes currently using the system include Roll Back Malaria, Lymphatic filariasis Elimination, Buruli Ulcer, Guinea worm Eradication, Onchocerciasis Control Programme, and Polio Eradication. In 2003, the system supported the implementation surveillance of HIV/AIDS/STIs (sexually transmitted infections), Tuberculosis, Control of Communicable Diseases in Complex Emergency Situations, Outbreak Alert and Response and Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses.

HEALTHMAPPER DOWNLOAD

An online version of the HealthMapper can be downloaded below, together with the available datasets for Mali, which are made publicly available for download for demonstration purposes. Access to other country datasets is subject to the terms of the Public Health Information Product and Data License Agreement, which can also be downloaded below.

Download/installation instructions

• Download the HealthMapper and DataInstaller (available as zip files above).
• Unzip the two files, into two different folders, one for the HealthMapper and one for the DataInstaller.
• To install the HealthMapper application, double click on the file "Setup.exe" in your HealthMapper folder.
• To install the sample datasets, double click on the file "Setup.htm" in your DataInstaller folder.
• If you are installing the HealthMapper for the first time, note the HealthMapper will not run if you do not install the datasets.