HealU-Widespread Disease Prevention Network
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Date
2013
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Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka
Abstract
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.
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Health Science, Computer Science, Technology, Communication Technology, Information Science