فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: Developed countries have strong health and demographic surveillancesystem (HDSS), whereas there is a dearth of such system in developing countries like India. Indiadepends on national surveys and individual studies for public health information. At present All IndiaInstitute of Medical Sciences – New Delhi HDSS and Vadu HDSS are well established HDSS in India.MATERIALS AND METHODS: We developed a HDSS in a remote rural area of South India andnamed as Community Health Information Management System (CHIMS) This covered 20 villagesaround Rural Health Training Centre – Chunampet. We collected the family and demographicinformation from March 2018 to October 2018. Pregnancy, birth, under‑five and mortality data werecollected once in every 3 months with the help of interns, Medical Social Workers. Data collectiondone using CHIMS Guide and entered in EpiData software. EpiAnalysis, Quantum GeographicInformation System, Dropbox were the other freely available software used in this program.RESULTS: CHIMS HDSS covered 14924 individuals belonging to 4486 households in the surroundingtwenty villages. Population density was 213/km2. CHIMS consumed very limited resources in termsof workforce, materials, and transport. CHIMS database was used as a baseline database for manyother studies. This CHIMS HDSS helped in many publications, postgraduate thesis dissertationsand mainly attracted many extramural research funds from leading government Research Institutesfrom India.CONCLUSION: CHIMS proved to be a robust surveillance system in providing vital public healthinformation about the community and attracted more extramural funds to the institute.