City Health Monitor/Tracker Help
The following provides information regarding the http://www.cityhealthmonitor.info Website, and describes how to use the different functionalities of the Site. The information is divided by Section, each of which corresponding to a different Page of the Website.
- Find Infections
- Report Infections
- Map Propagations
- Diagnose Diseases
- Tweets
- Facebook Posts
- Forum
- Contact
Find Infections http://www.cityhealthmonitor.info
Users can consult from this page the diseases that have been reported within the last month, by other users of the site located in their respective Region. All the diseases that have been reported in any cities located within a 50Km radius of the city selected will be displayed.
Map reported Infectious Diseases in your City Section:
In order to display the diseases that have been reported by other users for a specific Region within the last month, you must first select the Country=>State/Prov.=>City combination for which you wish to have information. After selecting the proper city, you only need to click on the Display Diseases Button to view the list of diseases reported in all the cities located within a 50Km radius of the City selected.
Reported Diseases & Instances Section:
Upon clicking the Display Diseases Button, the diseases that have eventually been reported in any city located within a 50Km radius of the selected city will be displayed in this section of the page, along with the number of instances for each disease (for all cities located within a 50Km radius of the city selected). If no disease has been reported within the last month, a message stating this situation will be displayed.
Map Section:
The Map displays a marker for each city located within a 50Km radius of the city selected (including the selected city), for which at least one disease was reported within one month.
Report Infections http://www.cityhealthmonitor.info/reportinfections.aspx
Users can report on this Page a specific disease that he, or one of his family members, has fallen ill to.
Report an Infection in your City Section:
In order to report a disease to which you, or one of your family members, has fallen ill, you must first select the appropriate Country=>State/Prov.=>City combination in which the person having contracted the disease lives, and then the Infectious Disease in question. After selecting the appropriate city and disease, you will need to enter the two words found in the CAPTCHA at the bottom of the page, before clicking the Submit Button. This additional step is meant to make sure that the one reporting the disease is a human and not an automated tool (bot) which could deceitfully report several diseases and populate the database with fraudulent entries.
Map Propagations http://www.cityhealthmonitor.info/mappropagationofdiseases.aspx
Instead of displaying the diseases reported in a specific city like the previous page, this page displays all the cities (worldwide) in which a specific selected disease has been reported within the last month.
Map Cities having a Specific Reported Disease Section:
Users must first select the disease for which they wish to see its current (within the last month) propagation rate, and then click on the Map Cities Button in order to display the list of cities for which the disease in question has been reported.
Cities Having Reported Selected Disease & Instances Section:
Upon clicking on the Map Cities Button, the eventual list found in this section will contain all the cities for which the disease in question has been reported within the last month. The number of instances will also be displayed. If the selected disease in question has not been reported in any city, a message stating this situation will be displayed.
Map Section
The Map displays a marker for each city (worldwide) for which the selected disease was reported al least once within the last month.
Diagnose Diseases http://www.cityhealthmonitor.info/diseasefinder.aspx
Users have the ability from this page to consult a list of possible diseases that an ill person may have contracted, based on certain parameters selected in the page, such as Primary System affected, Symptoms, at Risk Groups to which the person ill may belong, and the Geographical Location in which this person lives in or has travel to.
Please note that not all types of filters need to be selected, and more than one filter for the same type may be selected. Users are suggested to try different scenarios of filters in order to have a better chance of determining their, or their family member’s, condition. As an example, by selecting either the item “Women” or “Men” in the at Risk Group, the Site will return, after clicking the Display Diseases Button at the bottom, a list of diseases for which it was clearly identified that either Women or Men (based on the selection) had a higher probability of contracting a disease. Meanwhile, most diseases have an equal, or almost equal chance of being contracted by either a Women or a Men, and thus selecting this parameter will inadvertently filter out several diseases which shouldn’t have been excluded.
Users have the ability to select one or multiple Parameters/Filters within each of the Categories listed hereafter. As indicated above, users are not required to select a Filter for each Category/Type, and may select several Filters for one Category. It is up to the user to decide which combination of filters he wished to apply. Regardless of the categories of filters and the amount of filters a user wishes to apply, once having selected all the desired filters, the user must click on the “Display Diseases” Button at the bottom of the page in order to display the possible diseases in the “Possible Infectious Diseases based on Selected Parameters” Window. The “Apply Filter” Buttons found under each category is used to filter the entries displayed in the filter section below the previous one. As an example, let us suppose that a user selects a System in the “Select the Primary System(s) Affected by the Disease” Window, and then clicks on the “Apply Filter” Button, the Window found in the “Select all the Existing Symptoms as a Result of the Disease” Section will display only Symptoms which may be associated with the Systems selected in the previous Window. The other Filters work in a similar manner.
Filter Categories:
Select the Primary System(s) Affected by the Disease
Select all the Existing Symptoms as a Result of the Disease
Select any At Risk Group(s) to which the affected Person belongs or any Items to which he/she has been Exposed
Select any Region(s) to which the affected Person Lives in or has Travelled to Recently
Tweets http://www.cityhealthmonitor.info/diseasepropagation.aspx
This page enables users to display Public Tweets related to specific keywords that have been Tweeted on the Twitter Platform within the last week by users from a specific city. It has to be noted that the maximum number of tweeted messages returned on the page will be 100, regardless if there were more than that amount of messages containing the keyword search for, tweeted within the last week from the selected city. Thus, the page will return either 100 messages or less, tweeted within the last week (time limit), or 100 messages maximum (amount limit).
Display Symptom/Disease Keywords which have been Twitted within the Last Week in your City/Region:
Users need to first select the Country=>State/Prov.=>City combination in this section, for which they wish to see the Public Tweets containing the keywords selected hereafter. Once the city selected, users will be required to select either a Disease or a Symptom, or enter a keyword(s) they wish to search for. Once having selected these parameters, one only needs to click on the Display Instances Button to display the Public Tweets containing the specific keywords searched for, that have been Tweeted on the Twitter Platform within the last week by users originating from the selected city.
Keywords Twitted in your City/Region (Within Week):
This section will display all the Public messages containing the keywords searched for, that have been tweeted within the last week (with a maximum of 100 messages). Only the Public messages will be returned. The date at which the respective messages were tweeted will also be displayed.
Facebook Posts http://www.cityhealthmonitor.info/diseasepropagationfbposts.aspx
This page will display the posts that have been posted on the Facebook platform within the last month by your Facebook Friends, and having the specific keyword(s).
Display Keywords which have been Posted on Facebook Platform within the Last Month by your Friends:
Users need to first selected a Disease or a Symptoms, or enter a keyword(s) for which they wish to search. After having specified this parameter, it is required to log into Facebook, in order to retrieve your Facebook Friends’s message. Upon login into Facebook for the first time, you will need to authorize the Site to retrieve the appropriate information (Posts) from your Friends on Facebook. No information will be retained by the Site, as indicated in our Privacy Policy. After having logged into Facebook, one needs to click on the Display Instances Button in order to display the messages having the keywords searched for.
Keywords Posted (Within Last Month):
This section of the page will display all the messages posted on Facebook having the keywords searched for, by your Facebook Friends within the last month. The messages will be displayed along with the corresponding Friends having posted them, as well as the date at which they were posted.
Forum: http://www.cityhealthmonitor.info/forum/
Please consult our Forum Page in order to obtain more information regarding its usage.
Contact:
Please do not hesitate to contact us at webmaster@cityhealthmonitor.info regarding any enquiries or comments you may have regarding this Help.
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