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Science Nation: Data-Driven Optimization to Improve Mobile Health Care in Disadvantaged Communities

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Rigoberto Delgado, a health economist at the University of Texas, wants to help health-care professionals target their limited resources. His team is using geospatial mapping science and predictive analytics to forecast areas of highest risk for illness. The researchers want to figure out where to send the mobile health clinics to help prevent potential outbreaks. Part of the "Science Nation" series.

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Runtime: 3 minutes 32 seconds

Topic: Health and Safety, Science
Subtopic: Health Care, Science Experiments, Science Methods
Grade/Interest Level: 10 - 12
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Release Year: 2018
Producer/Distributor: National Science Foundation
Series: Science Nation
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Computer screens with color-shaded images of a spiral shaped storm. Caption: study hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards from the inside.

Person filling a glass from a faucet. Caption: our risk of contracting some form of cancer would go up.

Green landscape with a hillside in the background. A small industrial installation is present. Caption: They don't know where to get information they can trust.

Robotic arms manipulating a small ball. Caption: is pushing the world of robotics and prosthetics

Bolt of lightning arcing from cloud to ground. Caption: we all want up-to-the-minute information.

Cluster of nerve fibers. Caption: that can image deep into biological tissue,

Dirty water with bubbles and PVC pipes. Caption: and reused again and again in a sustainable loop.

Person with a fabric cap strapped to their head. The cap has metal rivets and wires attached. Captions: (female) it feels maybe like a mild itchy or tingling sensation.

Microscopic image showing web-like structures and C shaped tubular organisms. Caption: (narrator) The soil itself is home to a vast number of tiny microbes,

White glowing orb against a black grid. Caption: Weakly Interacting Massive Particle