Demo Version: lgbtmd.herokuapp.com
Live version is in development, if you are interested in contributing, contact me: daria 33 at gmail
Driven to solve a longstanding problem in my community, I created LGBT MD to connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people to trustworthy medical providers. I'm excited to deploy a full, live version and offer this resource to LGBT people in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Discover providers near you by searching by both location and type. Bookmark your favorites and text yourself their contact info. Contribute reviews and new providers to help others find the care they need.
-------- Application: Python, Flask, Jinja, SQLAlchemy, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Beautiful SoupAPIs: Twilio API, Facebook OAuth, Mapbox.js, Mapbox GeoCoding API
Front-End: HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, JQuery, JavaScript, AJAX
33.3% of medical schools dedicate zero hours of their curriculum to LGBT health. On average, medical schools dedicate five hours to LGBT health education, and the quality of this education is widely variable.- Findings from “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-related content in undergraduate medical education” Journal of the American Medical Association (2011)
There is no centralized, interactive resource to address this problem in the San Francisco Bay Area. I set out to create it.
-------- I am looking for collaborators to complete the live version. Features to come include: a moderation page, a search by provider type, the ability to flag entries for correction, a user agreement that addresses privacy and liability.If you can contribute through building, legal advice for the user agreement, or ideas for grant funding, please contact me - daria 33 at g mail.
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Login through with Facebook to create an account. Search within a customized radius of your home.
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Toggle catagories to find providers of mental health services, providers who accept public health insurance, and trans-friendly services. Map created using the MapBox.JS API. --------
Click on the map for details about your provider. Check out their reviews and add your own. Text yourself a provider's contact information using the Twilio API. Bookmark providers as favorites and add new providers directly to the directory. --------
I began this project by contacting the Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality (GLMA), a non-profit organization of LGBT medical providers. GLMA was excited about my idea and agreed to let me use their data. However, they were unable to provide me with formatted csv files. I used BeautifulSoup and regular expressions to create a scraper to scrape the data I needed from their site.
On the backend, I am using the Flask web framework. It calls my SQLite database using SQLAlchemy. I used the Python GeoPy library to geocode every provider's address and created GeoJSON objects for each person using the Python GeoJSON library.
I created a customized map using the MapBox.JS API. My GeoJSON objects are available in the DOM on load, allowing for fast user iteractivity using JavaScript, AJAX, and JQuery. Users are able to search providers by radius and location, toggle by catagory, and inspect detailed information for each provider, including contact information and user reviews.
When logged in through Facebook Oauth, users are able to access additional features such as saving favorites, contributing new doctors to the directory, adding reviews, and texting provider contact info using the Twilio API.
-------- - my friends and mentors: Eric, Kyla, Kate, and Lo- my family and my partner, Cam
- my cohort and the teaching team at Hackbright
- the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association --------
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