Practitioners Approach Towards Information System of Infectious Disease Surveillance Issues: A Case Study of Community Medical Unit in Thailand
Jaturapith Krohkaew and Suwarin Pattamavorakun
Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Pathumthani, Thailand
Abstract—Thailand has had a long and successful history of health development, but there is currently little available data on the infectious diseases. Without such data, predicting how the disease might spread in the future is difficult. For a community medical unit namely Baan Bang Oor sub district medical promoting hospital which located in nearly Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, the problems are that the place of this health district is very wide spread for a few persons in charge and such the prolong period of flood and a lot of plashes cause many infectious diseases. So this study provides the application necessitate geographic information system (GIS) to the web application for effectively utilizing geospatial data in the context of a specific public health. This approach draws on concepts and is developed under the broad umbrella of GIS society. Researchers tried to make the system assists those with responsibilities for the control of infection in the timely investigation and management of health incidents, particularly when they are of regional important. This GIS usages and applications in medical and in healthcare system based on real-world experiences successfully meet the persons in charge and for community health control.
Index Terms—community medical unit, infectious disease surveillance, geographic information system
Cite: Jaturapith Krohkaew and Suwarin Pattamavorakun, "Practitioners Approach Towards Information System of Infectious Disease Surveillance Issues: A Case Study of Community Medical Unit in Thailand," Journal of Advanced Management Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 304-307, September 2013. doi: 10.12720/joams.1.3.304-307
Index Terms—community medical unit, infectious disease surveillance, geographic information system
Cite: Jaturapith Krohkaew and Suwarin Pattamavorakun, "Practitioners Approach Towards Information System of Infectious Disease Surveillance Issues: A Case Study of Community Medical Unit in Thailand," Journal of Advanced Management Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 304-307, September 2013. doi: 10.12720/joams.1.3.304-307