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["GROUT, Lise" <groutl@xxxxxxx>]

Dear Alex,

Thank you for your answer.

I already have a data element as coordinate in the form (actually it is rather an attribute). But each time your register a patient, even if he lives in the same village than a former patient, you will record slightly different coordinates, the point will be slightly different. What I would like is to be able to record the village of residence in a way that make it useful for analysis (if it is free text, it cannot be used directly).

Thanks

Lise

From: Alex Tumwesigye [mailto:atumwesigye@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 14 September 2016 08:25
To: GROUT, Lise
Cc: DHIS 2 Users list
Subject: Re: [Dhis2-users] Tacker villages

Dear Lise,

You can create an attribute or data element of value type 'coordinate'. This will allow  you to capture coordinates.

Alex

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:35 PM, GROUT, Lise <groutl@xxxxxxx<mailto:groutl@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
Dear all,

I am working on several Tracker programs, and we will be recording the village of origin.

Tacker enables to captures coordinates, but they will be (most probably) different from one case to the other as it is designed to be able to map the exact location of the entity. And I know you can then use the new cluster  features in GIS.

But I would like to aggregate the cases by villages of provenance. Having one free text box to indicate the village name is not useful for this. So I am wondering if any of you have already found wise ways of doing it.

Here are my first ideas, but would like to have your opinion before testing them:

1)      Create org units for each village, but:

a.      I fear the org unit will be very long to charge then

b.      The cases are registered at health facility level in the org unit tree, not village level

2)      Create an option set with villages, but:

a.      I fear it will be impossible to load…

b.      Don’t know if it can be dynamic (if you choose a district, you just see the villages of this district) (I think I was told it was not possible to do)

3)      Create a program to register the villages, and use the relationship feature (my favourite idea so far, anyone tried it?)

4)      Create a program to register the villages, and use them through another path. I know Uganda HISP showed something in Oslo, but I imagine this require coding?

Looking forward to reading your ideas!

Lise



Dr. Lise Grout
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