Name: Your health depends on where you live
Uploaded: 2010-01-25T09:30:00Z
Duration: 9 min 8 s
Description: 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."

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."

Bill Davenhall: Your health depends on where you live

Your health depends on where you live

Living near toxic dumps and heavy pollution influences health as profoundly as genetics, a neglected fact in medical records.

Geo-medicine can revolutionize healthcare by incorporating environmental data into medical records, enhancing diagnostic precision.

Tracking personal location history via mobile technology could enable physicians to tailor health advice based on environmental exposure.