A student studying bio-medical science suggested an idea for providing basic medical information for the general public. The general public without proper guidance can be misguided as to which medicine to take for which ailment, leading to prolonged illness or other problems.
I recently saw a talk on Ted.com by David McCandless which proved very interesting in relation to how important information can be. Because we are bombarded by a variety of visual information on a multitude of different mediums on a daily basis, it is harder to present facts and data in a way that can encourage the viewer to stop and take in the information. Presenting this information in a visually dynamic and understandable way is an important task.
Having watched this talk I immediately bought David McCandless book 'Information is Beautiful' which as so far proved both interesting and entertaining, the best of both worlds. So perhaps a dynamic information chart or map could be created representing symptoms and medicines or even an app for the iphone to guide a person to the correct choice of medicine.
Where this chart, poster or pamphlet would be placed could be very interesting especially for those people who don't have access to internet or iphones.
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