The general objectives of this study were to develop a health education management information system to effectively deal with community health problems. This study aimed at 1) to development an health education management information system, and 2) to offer computer-based communication channels among the District Health System components such as health center, health subcenters, and community hospital, 3) lastly, to identify the key issues and effectiveness of health education.
Major findings of the study were as follows.
The major benefits and significances of this information system included : improvement of quality of health education statistics by reducing manual data processing, improvement of productivity of health educators by reducing paper works, improvement of decision-making capability of managers by providing more information for planning, organizing, and evaluating health education programs, and improvement of communication flow among health institutions.
Based on the findings of the study, the following are recommended :
(1) The health education information system will connect with computerized information systems of various health-related institutions in a district and computer-based communication channels among them, and of the superior agencies in the future.
(2) The major functions of the computerized health education program are : to keep client medical records, to inquire about information on the client and his family´s history.
(3) The program will provide outputs in various forms, such as filles for patient records, data on some chronic diseases, information on the patients and his family members, and various kinds of statistics.
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