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    Healu Widespread Disease Prevention Network
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2013) Ekanayake, O.V.
    Among the health issues circulates in the globe, wide spread disease is the major concern in today's world. There are many reasons for the spread of diseases. People are unaware of the criticality of diseases, unable to take necessary precautions such like to keep their environment clean and for the infected, they do not have proper midi-care or more control over the spread of diseases. HealU will solve this issue, it will improve awareness among people to solve their community environmental problems, organize projects and campaigns to help the needed. HealU is a wide spread disease prevention network, generally every person can be a part of it; ideally we will specifically combining the government health sector which includes the authority, Deputy Director General and the Public Health Inspector. Organizations such like WHO, Lions Club, etc. Donors and suppliers like drug companies. Hospitals, doctors are also part of the users and finally the public. HealU provide a social technology platform which connects these parties to provide the solution. The public can report about a problem in their community via SMS or Email which will lead the public health inspector for investigation then he/she will report the problem for approval and will be published in the network notifying the relevant organizations. Therefore it will provide the necessary requirements for the organizations to organize and manage to execute the project. HealU will also improve awareness among people initially acquire patient information from hospitals and provide disease statistics especially to the Deputy Director General; therefore he/she can suggest precautions and notify the public via SMS and Email. These disease statistics is also been used to generate projects in aid for those who are infected so that volunteer organizations can join hands to help people.
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    HealU-Widespread Disease Prevention Network
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2013) Ekanayake, O.V.; Rajapaksha, R.W.V.P.C.
    Among the global problems that are addressed by the World Health Organization, widespread diseases are a leading problem specially in the developing and under developed countries. Today Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Dengue, Malaria are a few among the lethal diseases that circulates the globe. The WHO further states that every year 250 million people are affected by malaria which leads to one million deaths per year, and also 2.5 billion people, two fifths of the world's population, are now at risk from dengue and estimated that there may be 50 million cases of dengue infection worldwide every year(UN Publications, 2013). HealU is a wide spread disease prevention network, which provide a social technology platform to connects parties in order to provide the solution. Every person can be a part of it, specifically combining the government health sector which includes the authority, Deputy Director General and the Public Health Inspector and Organizations such as WHO, UNICEF, Rotary Club, Lions Club, etc. and Donors and suppliers like drug companies as well as hospitals, doctors are also part of the users and the public. The public can report about a problem in their community via SMS or web message which will lead the public health inspector for investigation then he/she will report the problem for approval and will be published in the network notifying the relevant organizations. Therefore it will provide the necessary requirements for the organizations to organize and manage to execute the project. HealU will also improve awareness among people initially acquire patient information from hospitals and provide disease statistics especially to the Deputy Director General; therefore he/she can suggest precautions and notify the public via SMS and Email. These disease statistics is also been used to generate projects in aid for those who are infected so that volunteer organizations can join hands to help people. Methodology HealU contains the following 3 major modules, 1. Communication. 2. Project manager. 3. Mobile application. 1. Communication There are three methods the users of HealU can communicate • SMS • • E-mail Web Messaging 1.1 Report a problem. HEALU has to cooperate with SMS service providers, the public can post their problem through SMS. The web users, it is possible to web message a problem to the system. Once the problem is received it will be processed using server side scripts to extract information. This is why HEALU users have to use a specific format when they send SMS messages to our server. HEALU location PROB message: the system stores the problems in the database and also categorize according to the problem description and location. The Project Manager will use these messages to generate projects.