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Easy Support for Basic Reporting Tasks
“Kabarole!” is designed as a flexible tool for routine data collection and basic evaluation to support a district health team in decision making. It can be adapted to the needs of a specific district where health
services are provided by different kinds of health units and where an upward reporting structure from the providing level to the district level exists.It doesn’t have a lot of fancy features, but rather
supports the basic tasks in a reporting system:
- Enter health reports from the health providers (Health Units) into a database.
- Calculate and print monthly, yearly ... summary-reports.
This is basically all it does. But there are some side features to support these tasks:
- Easy Data Entry
- Simply select health units for data-entry from a district map. Those health units which were entered already, are marked on the map.
- Data entry can be restricted to health units, which really provide the concerned service or belong to a certain group.
- Data entry screen looks the way it was defined in EpiInfo.
- Easy Summary Reporting
- Freely select the reporting period for which you want to summarize.
- Freely restrict the calculations to specific groups of health units.
- Summary reports look exactly like the data entry form which was designed with EpiInfo.
- Direkt printing or export as text-file for further editing.
- Keep track of missing reports.
- Easy Export for External Analysis
- Easy export of data to the common DBF format, which can be read by EpiInfo, MS Excel, ArcInfo etc.
- Freely restrict export according to reporting period and health units or groups of health units.
- Easy Set-Up and Maintenance
- Simply download and unpack the program files onto your harddisk.
- Simply define health units by clicking on a map of your district. As a map serves a simple Bitmap, which you can easliy draw with Windows Paintbrush or import from a scanner.
- Simply import data entry forms which you have created with Epi Info 6. “Kabarole!” understands the data definition section of EpiInfo files (well, at least numbers and text :-).
- New versions of official reporting forms can be imported as change of the existing data entry form.
- Classify health units according to provided services and self-defined groups (e.g. Counties, private/public, NGO support, endemic areas ...)
- Inactive health units don’t have to be deleted, but can be marked as inactive.
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