Jeev: A Low-Cost Cell Phone Application for Tracking the Vaccination Coverage of Children in Rural Communities

Katib, Anas; Rao, Deepthi; Rao, Praveen; Williams, Karen

doi:10.1109/ichi.2013.21

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“…Nextleaf developed Cold Chain Monitor [15] to automate SMS temperature reporting. OpenLMIS [19], VaxTrac [120] and Jeev [7] are among other vaccine coverage tracking system being used in different parts of the world.…”

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Supporting immunization programs with improved vaccine cold chain information systems

Anderson

Perrier

Pervaiz

et al. 2014

IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC 2014)

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Immunization is recognized as one of the most successful public health interventions ever devised. A critical component of immunization programs is the vaccine cold chainthe cold storage to keep vaccines safe from manufacture to eventual delivery to the child. Countries need to manage their vaccine cold chains and logistics systems to ensure sufficient storage capacity, distribution of adequate supplies of vaccines, and functional cold storage equipment. There are particular challenges for remote facilities where transportation costs are high, power infrastructure is lacking, and communication is limited. Accurate information about the cold chain is essential to address these challenges and to evaluate the impact of different interventions.A Cold Chain Information System (CCIS), which tracks health facility information and the country's cold chain equipment can help address these challenges at both the strategic (planning) and tactical (management) levels. This paper describes our efforts to develop a CCIS for Laos, in collaboration with UNICEF and the Lao Ministry of Health. The work builds on experience with deploying CCIS's in multiple countries along with developing analysis tools and data standards. The CCIS in Laos uses DHIS2, a widely used web based health indicator system as the back end, which is integrated with SMS reporting from the district and health center level where internet is not guaranteed to be available. A central goal of the system is to allow regular reporting of vaccine stock levels and vaccine refrigerator status (measured by logging devices recording high and low temperature alarms). The system is designed with notifications to promote action by technicians or managers. The technical contributions of this work include the development of a new data model for DHIS2 and a text message system using an Android gateway to RapidSMS with a custom notification engine interfacing to DHIS2.

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Supporting immunization programs with improved vaccine cold chain information systems

Anderson

Perrier

Pervaiz

et al. 2014

IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC 2014)

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“…For each dataset,Table 2also shows the number of records in each table and the total database size including the indexes. (Only the performance evaluation of Jeev on D 1 was previously reported in the conference version of this paper[32]. )…”

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A prototype of a novel cell phone application for tracking the vaccination coverage of children in rural communities

Katib

Rao

et al. 2015

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

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Immunization saves millions of lives against vaccine-preventable diseases. Yet, 24 million children born every year do not receive proper immunization during their first year. UNICEF and WHO have emphasized the need to strengthen the immunization surveillance and monitoring in developing countries to reduce childhood deaths. In this regard, we present a software application called Jeev to track the vaccination coverage of children in rural communities. Jeev synergistically combines the power of smartphones and the ubiquity of cellular infrastructure, QR codes, and national identification cards. We present the design of Jeev and highlight its unique features along with a detailed evaluation of its performance and power consumption using the National Immunization Survey datasets. We are in discussion with a non-profit organization in Haiti to pilot test Jeev in order to study its effectiveness and identify socio-cultural issues that may arise in a large-scale deployment.

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Digital tracking of Migrants' Children Health Status by using Face Recognition Systems

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Deshpande²,

Chirame³

et al. 2022

2022 4th International Conference on Smart Systems and Inventive Technology (ICSSIT)

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Jeev: A Low-Cost Cell Phone Application for Tracking the Vaccination Coverage of Children in Rural Communities

Cited by 4 publications

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Supporting immunization programs with improved vaccine cold chain information systems

Supporting immunization programs with improved vaccine cold chain information systems

A prototype of a novel cell phone application for tracking the vaccination coverage of children in rural communities

Digital tracking of Migrants' Children Health Status by using Face Recognition Systems

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