Postgraduate Institute of Medicine University of Colombo

School Health Management Information System
The health of a child is vital for effective
learning. The health of a child directly
contribute to the outcome of the education
that he/she receives. School health services
are an important component of the primary
health care system of every country. Health
habits learnt in school influence the peers,
family and the local community.
According to the Family Health Bureau of
Sri Lanka there are about 3.9 million school
children in 9136 schools in the country with
47 percent of schools having less than 200
children. The existing school health
information system is a paper base system. Being a paper-based information system it has
some inherent problems which include poor quality of data, timeliness of data, completeness
of data in data processing, accuracy of data and feedback. To overcome defects in the paper
base system, there should be a web-based online school health management information
system for the Family Health Bureau. DHIS2 is a Free and Open Source Software and it has
been used in more than 15 countries around the world. DHIS2 has been developed based on
the World Health Organization‟s health data exchange format called Statistical Data and
Metadata Exchange. So it was used to develop the school health management information
system with no cost.
A school health management information system will ensure timely availability of
information that is need for policy formulation and monitoring of school health programs at
every level of supervision.
Implementation of this system is planned after piloting it in a selected Medical Officer of
Health (MOH) area.
Dr. T.R.D.A Gunasekara
agtilinagunasekara150@gmail.com
Supervisor:
Dr. Chitramalee De Silva
Member, Specialty Board in Biomedical Informatics
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