Daily DHF and DHF folder for Dengue Hemorrhage Fever Prevention and Control in Krabi province

Abstract

This study was to use Daily DHF and DHF folder in management, monitoring and evaluation Dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention and control in Krabi. Daily DHF was reported system which developed to electronic soft ware and improve case control late. DHF Folder was folder to record activities about prevention and control cases. It showed that investigation and case control get better than before which were 91.7% and 86.9% and related significantly respectively. Daily DHF was better than epidemiologic reported system because of the more coverage of patient names and the faster in time to receive illness data and it could be back up some recodes of patient after change diagnosis for checked up. The result of this study were that patient name of cases were record in DHF folder as 93.1%, the distribution of cases by week, the infected cases repeated in the same area as 30.2% and number of outbreak villages was 41%. The cause of this results were the coverage of complete adult vector spray at the index house as 72.2% and the successful larva control at the index house as 67.5%. The opinion of health workers to Daily DHF was good, this system could get early and completely illness data and DHF folder was good too, it has complete data to evaluation but someone think that it is work load. The suggestion of this study was to use Information Technology and System to develop Daily DHF to web site and health workers have user and password to get illness data in time and can immediately record prevention and control activities in this program by themselves instead of manual report. Nevertheless the practice of analysis and the control plan of health workers will do in the future.