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This paper presents a system that enhances the effectiveness of a national vaccination planning and dispensing system for countries where the Government has been spending huge resources with not much success in out reaching vaccination programs to remote places and to all inhabitants. This study focuses on finding the shortcomings and gaps being faced during vaccinating children in Pakistan. The case study for Pakistan has been done by performing requirement engineering and considering many factors relating to people behavior and attitude and based on the study designing a system by using Information and communications technology as an enabler to address all gaps and shortcomings while ensuring human factors are tackled by the technology. The design guarantees proper scheduling, execution and monitoring of every child’s vaccination schedule as well as events generation to ensure it is enforced right from its birth hence resulting in clean sweep of infectious diseases and making Pakistan an example for other developing countries to follow. The system also gives visibility to the decision makers for gauging the efficacy of the system. It helps them to take managerial decisions and steps to ensure that vaccination programs are executing with maximum benefits in response to the immunization improvement program.
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Khan, A.S., Khan, S.A. (2017). Using Information and Communications Technology as an Enabler for Designing an Efficient National Level Vaccination Planning and Dispensing System. In: Badnjevic, A. (eds) CMBEBIH 2017. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 62. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4166-2_95
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