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Keeping track of the way that these diseases form and the things that
determine them to spread at an alarming rate is vital. Detecting patterns is the
first step in the fight to prevent these diseases from affecting people in the future;
therefore, keeping a well documented record of such cases is the best solution.
Public health surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection of data regarding health-
related events. The analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of this information are
used to reduce morbidity and mortality and to improve health. Surveillance data can be
used for immediate public health action, program planning and evaluation, and
formulating research hypotheses.
The idea is to store all such data on a website, with the help of health professionals
from all over the world, who will become online members.
However, anyone can log into the website and query the database to find out
statistical information about infectious diseases, such as the aftereffects,
the medicines used to help cure them and even the types of people
they are most likely to affect, depending on the patient’s
characteristics, and their background information.
Face to face interview with Dr. Teodor Dan, specialist in
infectious diseases at "Sf. Parascheva “ Clinical Hospital,
Iasi
e-mail: teodordan@yahoo.com
tel no. : +40722927497
www.who.int
www.cdc.gov
http://emedicine.com
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed
After getting an idea about how international tracking of
infectious diseases should work, we took our first interview.
Doctor Teodor, was kind enough to clear the following up for us:
-Data input: Health professionals may input data only if they are
members. Otherwise, they have to register on the research institute
website in order to be able to do that.
Only members have real access to the database. Non members can only view the
statistical information derived from the data stored in it.
Only health professionals who are members can add new data.
a) If the disease does not exist in the database, the health professional will submit
all the necessary information about it, as well as the necessary information
regarding the infected patient and background;
b) If the disease exists in the database, then the health professional is only required
to submit the information about a new case.
Personal information will only be recorded for members. Each member will be
assigned a username, a password, and personal information such as first name,
last name, address, and date of birth will also be kept.
Each member may change his/her password, but this can only be done
after confirming the initial password.
Only the medical information about a patient is pertinent; the
personal data shouldn’t have to be kept. (Example: height, weight
and age are important to know, but the name, address or telephone
aren’t required)
Changes to the information regarding a certain patient and the changes in his
condition can be made only by the health professional who added that case.
It is important to keep track of the climate and geographical information as well as the
coordinates where the patient contracted the disease.
The statistical information can be read in all ways depending on the person’s interests.
This means that anyone can find out information about a certain disease or disease-
related information about a certain location, or a certain type of patients it affects. The
calculations will be done using a wide range of predefined functions that will be very
accessible to the site users, and thus results will always be up to date.
Information regarding the medicines used to cure a certain disease will also be
supplied by the health professionals. They are also required to offer
information about the health-care providers and the kind of medicine
they offer.
Health professionals will receive the latest information about
all the diseases that they are currently tracking via e-mail each
week. Each health professional can choose exactly what type of
information he wants to receive.
GPS information is recorded for the place where the patient got infected, not
where he lives. If these places do not coincide, then the latter becomes irrelevant
to the research.
Eventually, the database will be used to track trends and for some extrapolative
modeling based on the accumulated data.
The data provided by the health professionals will be checked in order to prevent the
input of false information.
Health professionals from all over the world can become members, even if
there will be cases of two members who work in the same department of the same
institute, or even in the same lab.
Each health professional can only sign up to become a member once. This means that it
will not be possible to have two members with the same username, password, address or
e-mail. As a consequence, it is important that each health professional provides personal
information and not information about the institute that they work for. This will be
tracked separately.
Each health professional may work in a certain institute tracked by the database.
The input of data will be made depending on the laws of the country where the
health professional who studies the case lives.
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DISEASE DISEASE AGE GROUPS
ID NAME 0-18 18-40 40-65 > 65
21 Hansen’s Disease 0 2 5 8
26 Scarlet Fever 9 5 2 0
33 Enteric Fever 6 7 2 8
39 Chicken Pox 20 10 4 0
78 Cholera 9 12 10 15
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LATITUDE LONGITUDE DISEASE DISEASE TOTAL DISINFECTION DISINFECTION
INTERVAL INTERVAL ID NAME INFECTED DATE
40°34’N – 41°12’N 5°33’V – 6°10’V 22 Hepatitis A 30 Yes 12/11/1994
18°34’N – 19°55’N 12°00’E – 13°19’E 50 Malaria 40 No
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At this moment in the world there are two or three centers of
tracking infectious diseases. We proposed an original idea for
tracking infectious diseases that can easily work not only at local
level but also globally.
Considering that the scientific research database is at global level, Dr. Teodor
was very surprised by our capacity of understanding the concept, and also by
the solution we proposed.
Professional gains:
- Applying theoretical knowledge
- Facing our interviews
- Understanding the business needs
- Creating the conceptual model
- Creating the presentation
“Believe in the chance “Arriving at
of those you help one goal is
because every life the starting
deserves another point to
chance!” another.”
“There is nothing
“What we do for we can do better
ourselves dies with us. than seeking to
What we do for others become still better
and the world remains than we are.“
and is immortal.”