Development of Integrated Student Health Database System

Abstract

An analysis of students’ health data on the Health Data Center System was not testable for its validity and coverage for students aged 6-14 years. Data on school details, classes, academic years, institutions are observably complicated and often not reported, especially students’ health data which are highly limited and incompletely collected and incompatible. Thus, it is a necessity to operate a database system with students’ health data. This study aimed to develop a system of students’ health database for actions related to surveillance, monitoring and evaluations, reduction in duplications of data recording process, a provision of students’ health situations at national level, creation of collaborative action with an utilization of database system among the users from the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Health and other related agencies with a common purpose of data sharing between the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Health to enhance the data linkage between educational institutes and healthcare units to return data back to healthcare units at the local level. Data from 47,944 organizations, accounted of 89.92%, were already linked and used to produce a total of five reports on both school and student data, 31 reports on six health school issues and also a total of 28 reports on five health issues, and 31 reports on 6 health issues submitted to the Ministry of Education and healthcare units, respectively. This is to raise an awareness of students’ actual health problems and systematically solve the problems and also to prepare the students’ readiness for living in the era of 21st century and later being quality working-aged populations to drive the country’s sustainable development.