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Table 13.4
Analysis Done by Health Officials (Epidemiologists) of the Collected Data Sets
Attributes
Description
Examples
Period
Two values: Start and end date of
the series of data to be analyzed.
Neither value can be null. Some
logic will be used to suggest the
start and dates for a period
October 11, 2006 to October 10, 2007
March 1, 2008 to March 31, 2008
Disease
Multiple values: Same as in Tables
13.2 and 13.3; user should have the
option of selecting a single disease
for analysis or a collection of
diseases to analyze the data set, or
by disease type
Cholera Mosquito-borne diseases:
dengue, malaria Child diseases:
typhoid, rubella, jaundice
Symptoms
Multiple values: Same as in
Table 13.2 and 13.3; user should
have the option of selecting a
single symptom or a collection of
symptoms to analyze the data
Cough Fever + cough Fever + joint
ache + rash
Gender
Multiple values: Same as in
Table 13.2 and 13.3; user should
have the option of selecting Male
or Female, Unknown, or a subset
of the genders such as Male and
Unknown to analyze the data set
Male Male, Unknown Male, Female,
Unknown
Age group
Multiple values: Same as in
Table 13.2 and 13.3; user should
have the option of selecting one
or a range of age groups
Child All (Child & Adult) Age: 10-25
Provider
Multiple values: Same as in
Table 13.2 and 13.3; user should
have the option of selecting one
or a collection of providers.
Kurunegala base hospital
Kurunegala base hospital +
Kuliyapitiya hospital, + Pannala
Peripheral Unit
Area
Multiple values: User should have
the option of selecting a polygon
(i.e., GIS area). The location will
be subdivided as country, region,
state, province, district, division,
area, town/village
Pannala MOH Division Kurunegala
District Sivaganga District Tamil
Nadu State
13.7 Future Work
At the time of this writing this chapter, April 2009, the project had completed
more than 85% of the implementation stage. A set of software requirement
specifications were developed by the project's technology partners, and the
individual software components were developed. The next steps involve
