The purpose of provision of services like water and sanitation are aimed at a larger public health improvements and quality of life, perspective. Assets related to water and sanitation can be mapped at varying degrees of accuracy for its presence, utility and usability periodically – owing to its definite form or impartial inform sharing (as most of it State owned or State served). However, certain characteristics of performance like water quality, the health impacts, etc. often go unreported or shared in advance.
The current awareness levels on the prevalent sicknesses is high and owes its success to the ever improving institutional systems and renewed focus on IEC in many schemes. Sickness / disease affliction like repeated diarrhoea, cholera, fluorosis, malaria, dengue etc. are often a result of extended exposure / consumption of bad quality water or poor sanitation or exposure to pollution. The consequence is felt is many forms, but summed up best in terms of decreased economic productivity at household level. Reporting on health aspects are observed as a “private information” often limited to household or neighbours confines. Nevertheless, these recurrent health issues are a sign of a public endemic in the making and too huge for the current healthcare system to provide relief.
Most health afflictions small or large are often attended to at various levels – household / community or local heathcare systems/ state run healthcare system at village level / private sector / market / volunteer actions. In formalised healtcare systems, patient affliction recording & its history is increasing becoming sharable across the system, with obvious benefits. Given the individual personal comfort and accessing affliction details from these databases endanger the right to privacy, a simplified yet im-personal afflictions details is required for undertaking any advance action to prevent one-off incidents turn into public health hazards.
Given the advantage of privacy levels provided by mobile phones (coupled with its penetration levels, ability to provide some level of targeting incentives), crowd sourcing of information is conceived. The envisioned solution is a mobile reporting application on sickness or disease affliction. The application is expected to provide information to water or sanitation providers, preferably the State owing to its reach and scale. It is expected to crowd source from the following target groups:
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