Implementation of surveillance and disease investigation system in 8^th regional health: Dengue haemorrhagic fever case

Abstract

© 2019 IEEE. The objective of this research was to present the results from implementing the new surveillance and disease investigation system in the 8th regional health. In order to prevent Dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) case before spreading its epidemic, the new surveillance and disease investigator system was developed and implement in the whole region, which consists of Udon Thani, Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Phanom, Nong Bua Lampoo, Nong Khai, Loei, and Bueng Kan. The implementation of this new program was fully deployed after a year of training, and currently the new system has been using for three years since January 2016. The results from the usages employed in the 8th regional health were compared with the previous report 506 provided by Bureau of Epidemiology (BOE) under the Department of Disease Control (DDC), the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH). The data usages concluded that hospitals have different levels of the system utilization depending on the gathering information process. In the first year of the implementation, 55.17% of the provincial hospitals, general hospitals and community hospitals actually employed the uses of the new surveillance program, and the number was increased to 89% at the end of the year 2017. The new system was also assessed for the evaluation, and the results showed that DHF investigated processes got better and incident cases became lower.