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Bill Davenhall: Your health depends on where you live

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Uploaded by on Jan 25, 2010

http://www.ted.com Where you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it's not part of your medical records. At TEDMED, Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctors in the loop. Call it "geo-medicine."

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  • 5:11--5:16 you can see the real Patch Adams turn around and face the audience

  • So they take a geograpical history? The only people I see benefitting from this are the health insurance companies.

    Be a lot better if they had a questions and answer section at the end of each of these lectures.

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  • The only people that don't want to be tracked are the ones that are ashamed of what they have done and what they would do in the future coupled with a completely lack of insight into human causality. I don't fear tyrants because karma is quite self-evident. No one can do anything unethical for too long without it coming back and biting them in the ass

  • great video..very interesting..thanks!

  • interesting but the better question to ask is why is it that people in pennsylvania or otherwise have a greater risk of heart attack? is it due more to diet, air pollution, water quality, etc? if we can determine what's causing such high rates of disease we can find a better solution like, reduce emissions as opposed to just moving somewhere else

  • Nietzsche wrote about this a hundred years ago...

  • I was hoping he actually survived getting hit by a train.

  • 5:10 hey it's Patch Adams again :P

  • how about a job-share?

  • it is becoming that

  • Agreed. they are lame at best... WTF happened to TED? where's the stimulating, brand new bleeding edge information?

  • Does the chart on heart attacks reflect population density also?

    More people means more heart attacks

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