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Home > Projects
Climate Change, Air Quality, and Human Health Mapping Tool (2006-07)
The New Brunswick Lung Association has launched a web mapping portal Next link will open in a new window www.gishealthportal.ca/nbla/. This was created to provide health authorities and the public alike with the tools to understand the links between climate change, air quality, and human health in the Province of New Brunswick.
The Lung Association is currently working on a project focussed on pandemic influenza, using the mapping technology to support decision-makers and to coordinate interventions for mitigating the impacts of a pandemic. This project, funded by GeoConnections, involves several industry, academic, health and safety partners. Culminating in a pandemic exercise in March 2007, the project will demonstrate how mapping technology can assist decision-makers to deal with emerging health threats quickly and effectively.
Geographical Information Systems are being used to protect human health from a variety of diseases such as West Nile Virus, Dengue Fever, Malaria, Tuberculosis, and Influenza.
>>> For more information, visit Next link will open in a new window:
http://www.nb.lung.ca/html/Programs/Lung/mapping.htm
Note: This information was found at:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/climat/newsletter-bulletin-5/initiatives_e.html
| Timeline | 2006-2007 |
| Team | New Brunswick Lung Association |
| Collaborators | GeoConnections |