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Table 13.5
Weekly Reports and Urgent Alerts Issued by Health Officials to Relevant
Healthcare
Workers
Attributes
Description
Examples
Headline
Single value: A headline describing one
or more significant events; perhaps
restricted to less than 100 characters
“Rains increase mosquito-borne
diseases” “Chikungunya appears
in North Central province”
“Unusual fever-like disease
emerging among children”
Priority
Single value: Indicating the urgency,
severity, and certainty of the emerging
disease with priority levels:
high
—
healthcare worker should access
alternate resources to learn more
about the emerging disease and be
vigilant, perhaps inform community,
low
—healthcare worker should be
vigilant but does not need to take any
action, or
urgent
—if message is
intended for the healthcare worker
(i.e., affects area healthcare worker is
in), then take immediate intervention
and prevention actions
Low High Urgent
Area
Multiple values: To identify the
geographical areas the significant of
the event
Western and central provinces
Sivaganga, Colombo, Kurunegala
districts Pannala, Wariyapola
divisions Kuliyapitiya,
Nathandiya, Pannala, towns, Sri
Lanka
Description
Single value: Table of, at most, top five
diseases and their counts or the most
significant urgent priority adverse
event and a description of the incident
Dengue (23), malaria (15), flu (145),
chikungunya (12) “Be advised, 12
cases of chikungunya identified in
Sivaganga district, rapidly
spreading, take immediate
action”
Resources
Multiple values: HTTP link to Web site
with full report for users to access to
obtain further information and
instructions
http://www.epid.gov.lk/WER/
http://www.sahana.lk/DS/GIS/
WER General: +9198555123123
Deputy Director Health Services:
+914455599889988
Effective
Single value: Date and time period the
alert is effective for
From: 2009-05-24T13:30:00+05:30
To: 2009-05-29T16:30:00+05:30 **
+05:30 is the UTC offset for Sri
Lanka and India.
integrating the software components, and introducing the standard oper-
ational procedures to the healthcare workers, as well as training them to
operate the ICT system, and initial testing of the end-to-end system before
initiating the evaluation period. Starting in June 2009 the RTBP would begin
to collect data through the field-level healthcare workers, apply the analytic
