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Real-time disease surveillance and analytics to improve decision-making in Ghana's health sector
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2019
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Abstract
People assume responsibility for their personal health, but on a nation-wide scale, governmental
bodies exist to monitor the health status of citizens in the country. This process of monitoring
is known as Public health surveillance. Public health surveillance consists of very important
sub-categories and one of these categories is disease surveillance. Disease surveillance is
concerned with monitoring the spread of diseases to establish trends or patterns.
The common method of disease surveillance in West Africa & Ghana relies on the pen-and
paper approach which is costly and untimely. The ineffectiveness of this approach was evident
during the Ebola crisis in 2014. Since then Ghana has acquired a new system, the District Health
Information Management System (DHIMS2) to conduct disease surveillance. The DHIMS 2
does a god job in eliminating most of the problems associated with previous implementations
for public health surveillance, but it errs on the side of speed and reliability as data collation is
not conducted in real-time and hence presents a lapse to the Ghana Health Service.
Therefore, the aim of this project is to design and implement a scalable web-based application
which health facilities will use to submit disease reports to health administrators who can in
turn monitor this disease cases and perform analysis on them.
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Applied project submitted to the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Ashesi University, in partial fulfillment of Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, [April ?] 2019
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web application, Ghana, health information, district health information system, disease surveillance