"a simple felt map": medical info graphics in Peru

Cafe,

The felt map -- an innovative tool for improving outreach & 
effectiveness of reproductive medicine in Peru's inaccessible rural 
areas -- tracks pregnancies, and is described in Ray Suarez's report 
for Jim Lehrer's _PBS NewsHour_:

     "Peru Eyes Innovations in Rural Maternity Health"
     Originally aired 31 March 2010

     with video podcast and text transcript at
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/latin_america/jan-june10/peru_03-31.html

FYI, there is a text-only companion piece on cervical cancer in Peru

     "Peru Weighs Low Cost Options to Tackle Deadly Cervical
     Cancer"

at

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/latin_america/jan-june10/cancer_03-25.html

which I also recommend, even though there's nothing here specifically 
on medical ID.

Nonetheless, more creative medical communications offer a partial 
solution to the problem:

     "Across Peru, cervical cancer kills more women each year than
     AIDS, complications of child birth or any other form of
     cancer. One in every 4,000 Peruvian women dies from the
     disease each year, more than breast cancer and lung cancer
     combined.

     "While that rate dwarfs the United States, where cervical
     cancer doesn't rank in the top ten causes of cancer deaths,
     Peru's experience is not uncommon in Latin America. Cervical
     cancer rates in the region are among the highest in the
     world, second only to Southern Africa in a World Health
     Organization analysis released in February."


In haste (it's tax time again in the U.S. ;-),
Deborah
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Deborah Taylor-Pearce
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