Development and Piloting of National Injury Surveillance System of Sri Lanka (NISSSL)

Author(s)

Dr. Achala Javatilleke

Date published

Jun, 2013

Last updated

31 Jan 2020

Summary

General objective: To develop and pilot web-based National Injury Surveillance System for Sri Lanka (NISSSL)

Specific objectives:

To review the previous stand-alone injury surveillance system
To analyse system requirements
To develop the data collection tools
To develop an in-house, web-based software using FOSS programming languages and database
To pilot the NISSSL
To train the staff of the relevant hospitals
To monitor and evaluate the NISSSL
To enhance the NISSSL
To establish a data backup policy
To explore the possibilities of recovering and exporting existing data

Author Type:

FETP affiliate

Languages:

English

Resource type:

Presentation

Topics:

Disease surveillance Health systems strengthening

Regions:

South-East Asia Region

Countries:

Sri Lanka