WIDP in use for Neglected Tropical Diseases
WHO Integrated Data Platform (WIDP) is currently in use at WHO-HQ for periodical data reporting for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) as well as for supporting countries for local trends monitoring and disease surveillance.
There are two ways the countries can adopt WIDP:
- Using global WIDP instance at WHO. In such case, countries will access central WIDP instance and directly enter their data into the server at WHO.
- Installing local WIDP instance at the territory. In such case, countries will be provided with installation packages including the software and required metadata with responsibility of providing the needed physical infrastructure.
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Using WIDP for reporting NTD data to WHO
WIDP provides support for countries to periodically report their data on the most important NTD indicators to WHO Headquarters, in order to allow global disease surveillance and eventual territory verification. In such scenario, besides reporting their data to WHO, countries are provided with functionality to also analyze and monitor their data.
Entering data into the system.
WIDP provides two main ways for entering the data:
- Form-based data entry, where data are entered instance-by-instance using the data collection forms inside core WIDP apps: Event Capture, Tracker Capture, and Data Entry).
- Massive (bulk) data entry, where data are entered using Bulk load app, by first downloading Excel spreadsheet templates based on the data collection form, filling in the Excel template, and lastly uploading data from the spreadsheets directly into the system. For example, this way, users can easily enter their retrospective data or collect data offline and enter it later into the system.
Sending data to WHO
Periodically, countries are reporting previously entered data to WHO. Notice that in the case of using a global WIDP instance, this step is already done by entering data into the system. Otherwise, data entered into the local WIDP instance need to be explicitly sent to WHO servers, by using Data Sending app provided by WIDP.
Local monitoring
Finally, after the data are being entered into the system (global or local WIDP instance), countries are provided with functionality to analyze these data and visualize them with different types of charts, maps, and tables, in order to monitor the indicators at the territory.
Using WIDP for local NTD surveillance
Besides reporting data on the most important Category:NTD indicators to WHO, WIDP also provides strong support for countries to collect other NTD data and establish a local NTD surveillance system. For that purpose, WIDP provides a set of Category:NTD surveillance packages containing various forms for collecting NTD-related data.
The main steps are the same as in the case of reporting the data to WHO, with the exception that sending the data fro the purpose of reporting is an optional step.
For guidelines on how to use WIDP to collect and report NTD related data, refer to Category:WIDP_Documentation.
