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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Knut

At the risk of appearing even more ignorant, doesn't this scenario bear
some resemblance to tracked-entity-event, particularly as we have moved to
generalize this beyond the scope of tracked persons?  Soi event 1, some
time in September, is a measles "outbreak" in a district.  Event 2, some
months later, signals the end of the "outbreak" in that district.

Looking at tracker logic and seeing an outbreak-inception-incursion as
something similar to a stage-in-a-program is perhaps an odd thought but it
could be that the model works it is just the words which are wrong.

Maybe thats an off the wall thought, but couldn't help sharing ... :-)

Bob


On 15 February 2014 07:16, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear DHIS2 community, looking for good ideas for a use case which is a bit
> unusual.
>
> We'd like to map epidemic outbreaks, and the data are very simple:
> Outbreak or not, in other words, Yes/No per orgunit (a province or
> district). Perhaps Yes Only would be best here?
>
> The tricky part is the time dimension: We need to produdce maps of
> affected districts at regular intervals, at least monthly, possibly also
> more frequent.
> However, there is a lot of diversity in the data: Sometimes we have a
> start and end date, sometimes just a number of months.
>
> Currently, DHIS2 does not support one screen for multiple periods
>
> I see two possibilities:
>
> 1) Create just one dataelement "Outbreak" as Yes Only in a monthly
> dataset. Then one would have to select every affected month and say YES
>
> 2) Create two additional data elements: "Start date" and "End date" in a
> YEARLY dataset. Then also write a script behind the scenes which populates
> the Outbreak dataelement for the affected months - or even extend it to days
>
> Better ideas?
>
> --
> Knut Staring
> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
> +4791880522
> http://dhis2.org
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