International Journal of Information Technology (IJIT) – Volume 7 Issue 2, Mar - Apr 2021

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS

Children Vaccination Reminder SMS Alert System

B.Rajalakshmi [1], G.Sanjana Devi [2]
[1]
Assistant Professor Computer Science Department, Mangayarkarasi College of Arts & Science
for women,Madurai,Tamil Nadu – India.
[2]
Student,PG final year, Mangayarkarasi College of Arts & Science for women,Madurai,
Tamil Nadu – India.

ABSTRACT
This system presents a model for children vaccination reminder using short message services. The main objective
of child care safety is sending a reminder about the childhood vaccination schedule. It is a general saying that prevention is
always better then cure. Vaccines protect people from catching specific diseases. Vaccines also help to prevent the spread of
infectious diseases in the country. Some of the diseases are polio, whooping cough, diphtheria, measles, rubella etc…In the
existing system, the vaccination schedule is via written appointment. Nevertheless, such an approach may not be sufficient
as parents may forget due to a tight work schedule and daily routines. In the proposed system, this app is helpful to show
overall vaccine schedule details, the user can search injection location through this app. First, parents who decided to use the
system will register. The registration is done by particular health centers. The information on the parents and child will be
stored. The remainder system is an important service to send an alert message about child injection before injection date,
and it contains the name of the child, type of vaccines, date, and name of the health center. The important diseases injection
like polio, rubella injection date is sent to the parent’s registered mobile number.
Keywords: Polio Vaccination, Reminder System, Measles, Vaccination, Diphtheria.

I. INTRODUCTION
remainder. It reduces time frame in adding any info related
to children treatment and thereby reduce the complexity
Prevention of disease is the key to public health. It
too. The Main motive of this application to provide
is a general saying that “prevention is always better than
seamless child care safety system wherein children info
cure”. Vaccines protect people from catching specific
can be maintained in a secure way and also handle
diseases. Vaccines also help preventing the Spread of
scheduling, treatment details given by doctor to children.
infectious diseases in the country. Such diseases include
One of the solutions that we are going to discuss here to
polio, whooping cough, diphtheria, measles, rubella
speed up the database response by using SQL Server
(German measles), mumps, Hemophilic influenza type b
database and to reduce the time complexity by using
(Hib) and tetanus. Reminder systems have been in use for
multi-user environment. Multi-user environment reduces
several decades, except for the more sophisticated
burden with effortless maintenance.
computerized phone reminder systems, and are not
complex either to initiate or to operate. Reminder systems
can work through a variety of mechanisms meant to II. LITERATURE REVIEW
prompt the patient, including phone calls. Short message
service (SMS) is an important and useful service included In ,K. Obahiagbon, et al, made a study and
in mobile phones. It is offered in all types of mobile demonstrated the gains of improving effective
phones as it is easy to use and can operate with minimal immunization coverage in developing country like Nigeria
cost. The child care safety is the care and supervision of through mobile remote monitory. It was glaring that remote
child vaccine and treatment details. It is supervision of a monitoring will help improve better health care delivery
child or multiple children at a time, whose ages range towards meeting the yearning of citizens who cannot easily
from six weeks to thirteen years. This Child Care access health institutions because of distance, and limited
application will be like in an online vaccine management health care providers. During critical situation, the patient’s
and appointment to doctor and service provider with easy location can be geo-located using the address supplied by
to use customizable options. The application is accessible the users. Also, special health SMS alert are instantly sent
from anywhere for private or at desktops or tablets etc. it by the EMR based on the age of user supplied during
will basically lessen the manual work and improves the remote monitoring from the RUI. The system is an
quality of maintaining records and other information interactive expert system that provides a more precise
related to vaccine, treatment to children, appointment and solution that will address immunization coverage problems,

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by maintaining a centralized database that track the recall, limiting analyses to the youngest age group (12–
progress of immunization schedule and inform physicians 23month-olds) produced the same findings as for the whole
of current health condition of patient as regards to evidence sample.
provided from physiologic data remotely sent via the RUI.
Childhood vaccination against common childhood vaccine In 2020, SourabhShastri, et al, explored the
preventable illnesses such as Measles, Whooping cough reasons why new born babies missed immunization
and Polio (poliomyelitis) can be identified and patient schedules. In the result, they have reviewed that the reasons
(child) can properly book an appointment to see a doctor. A for missing immunization are bad health of children,
system of this magnitude should be introduced into Nigeria parent’s knowledge of immunization, family size,
general health care system (hospitals, clinics, maternity) to household income, place of delivery, high birth rate, low
help ease the work of physicians and combat childhood education status of mother etc. The factors for full
preventable illnesses and death. immunization discovered in the papers were children whose
parents are educated, children of parents who has a service
In ,Kamal Karkonasasi, et al, proposed a model holder, current age of respondents whose age is 21-30
of their study was tested using data collected from self- years, highest education level, drinking water from tube
directed questionnaires filled up by 70 nurses in well and who comes from better economic status
government hospitals and government clinics in Malaysia. households. Some researchers proposed conceptual
A research method, which is based on the multi-analytical frameworks using ICT to improve the process of child
approach of Multiple Regression Analysis and Artificial immunization while others examined by applying statistical
Neural Networks, helps to refine the results of this study. and data mining techniques on immunization data to
The compatibility of the proposed system only has a understand the differentials and changes in child
significant and positive effect on attitude to use the system immunization. The Government of India has launched the
among other factors. Moreover, health centers intention mission Indradhanush to immunize all children and
was to use the system as further influenced by their pregnant women by 2020 under universal immunization
perceived usefulness than their attitude to use. The programme. The Government of Rajasthan facilitated
mediating effect of Attitude is also proved. However, there PCTS web based application for tracking pregnant women
is not any statistically significant difference in Intention and children for providing services.
scores accounting for the participants’ demographic
characteristics. In, SantoshiKumari, et al, proposed a system with
an idea of providing a common platform to store and
In 2007, Vivian H. Alfonso, et al, made an retrieve medical records of child with mandatory
analysis of health survey data from DHS 2007 and 2013– vaccination schedule details to start with as the child
2014, they assessed the changes in vaccination status mortality rate due to vaccine preventable diseases are
among young children between 12 and 59 months of age in significantly high in numbers. As the mobile and internet
the DRC. Overall, improvements in vaccination coverage technology continuous to evolve rapidly, regular alerts to
were observed over time: 26% compared to 44% of 12 to parents for providing timely vaccination to their
59 month-olds were fully vaccinated in 2007 and 2013– child/children for giving protection from vaccine
2014, respectively. The biggest gains in coverage of preventable diseases are implemented using SMS and E-
individual vaccines were seen in OPV1-3, from 47% in Mail messages. The facility to view previous medical
2007 to 66% in 2013–2014, and yellow fever, from 53% in records can help in speedy diagnoses and action. Data
2007 to 70% in 2013–2014. This coverage was higher than storage on cloud platform in future can enable this cloud
some other developing nations such as Nigeria, where 23% enabled technology. Integration to big data can further help
of children were fully vaccinated in 2016,but comparable to find patterns. Based on the collection of all the children
others such as India, where 43% of children were fully data on vaccination and medical history, new medical
vaccinated in 2016. However, source of vaccination learnings and findings can also be explored. New trends
information and method of assessment is important for the and patterns of various diseases can also be studied by
interpretation of results because large discrepancies in applying various advanced technologies such as data
vaccination estimates exist. In 2014, DTP3 coverage in analytics, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence
DRC was estimated as 61%, 80% and 93% according to techniques. This will help in giving better treatment and
DHS, WHO/UNICEF and country official administrative quality services and avoiding carrying of paper work for
estimates, respectively. Only 17% of all children in this medical checkups. Their work can further be extended not
analysis presented their vaccination card at interview and only to children but elderly also. Through leveraging IT in
reliance on maternal recall increased with child age, with a healthcare technologies, the quality of lives can be
decrease in those presenting cards in the 2013–2014 DHS. increased in future.
Though information obtained from older children may be In, S Joselena Percy Jehane, et al, presented a
less accurate due to the lack of documentation and maternal software application named Child Immunization Tracker.

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Here they register every child being born in a particular the uses of ontology to detect and understand anti-vaccine
area along with the parent details by using their information.
biometrics. They track the child for every immunization In, Yuhanisbinti, et al, presented a model for
scheduled by alerting those using deep learning algorithms children vaccination reminder using short message
like MARSplines and Logistic Regression. They also service. The model consists of data flow in reminding
maintain the record of the same for the child. parents of their children vaccination schedule. Existing
In, NukhbaAfzal, et al, proposed a technology practice on vaccination schedule is via written
oriented secure polio vaccination system. Their purpose appointment. Nevertheless, such approach may not be
was to build a system which makes the polio vaccination sufficient as parents may forget due to a tight work
system effective and competent so the people will be able schedule and daily routines. Their proposed model was
to stand against the wild polio virus and make the Pakistan evaluated by allowing selected respondents to use to the
free from polio virus. The focus of this paper was directed developed prototype. Results show that respondents do
towards the use of advanced tools in current vaccination agree on the benefit of having reminder send via SMS. In
system. The goal of the work offered is to commence a addition, all of the respondents feel that the proposed
technology to make the polio vaccination system efficient system is useful.
in general and security perspective. It investigates those
tools which can be used to make a vaccination system III. EXISTING METHOD:
effective and secure for the vaccinators which got death
threat and find them defenseless in the fulfillment of their The existing system is computerized Ms office
duties during vaccination campaign. Without proper format and moreover it’s very difficult to access the
security of health workers and general public it is not reports. It takes more time for the user to get appointment
possible to carry out a successful campaign. On the other from the doctor and collusion is occurred in the repetition
hand by making Polio vaccination system‘s model they of the name of the user and many duplicate records are
researched a framework before building it and to check the updated in the process.
correctness of their proposed system by formal modeling.
They also talked about the use of Colored Petri Nets to the
Polio Vaccination system ends up being an application IV. PROPOSED METHOD:
area which could profit by the elements of Colored Petri
Nets. There are numerous great explanations behind The proposed system is overcome all the
utilizing Colored Petri Nets for data displaying and disadvantages of the existing system. Here all the data are
examination. CPN model is a depiction of displayed maintained in the automatic manner and secure way. The
framework, and it could be utilized as an important feature reminder alert is implemented as main proposed system.
or as a presentation of a framework which need to be The admin send notification to the user for vaccine
disclosed to other individuals. They did formal modeling injection date for their child.
of their Proposed technology oriented secure Polio
Vaccination System. The authors verified their proposed Advantages
model and by using colored Petri Nets to stimulate the
different scenarios of their system. Hence the author • To automate the manual system
proved the correctness of their system. • To make the system user-friendly
In, Muhammad Amith, et al, discussed about the • Reports should be designed as it gives perfect
design and development of a formal ontology to describe view of required data
misinformation about vaccines. Vaccine misinformation is • Proper security to the data for the access
one of the drivers leading to vaccine hesitancy in patients.
While there are various levels of vaccine hesitancy to
combat and specific interventions to address those levels,
V. RESULT
it is important to have tools that help researchers
understand this problem. With ontology, not only can one 1. Web based application and android mobile based
collect and analyze varied misunderstandings about system design and development is designed and
vaccines, but one can also develop tools that can provide developed to store and retrieve the child medical history
informatics solutions. They developed the Vaccine using technologies mentioned in the proposed
Misinformation Ontology (VAXMO) that extends the architecture of this paper.
Misinformation Ontology and links to the nanopublication The overview of the vaccination schedule chart proposed
Resource Description Framework (RDF) model for false is provided
assertions of vaccines. Preliminary assessment using
semiotic evaluation metrics indicated adequate quality for
our ontology. They outlined, demonstrated and proposed

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2. Based on the child’s date of birth and

vaccination due date based on the age criteria, vaccination Vaccination details:
due date is calculated by the system. Doctors and parents
can view the due date calculation with respect to child.
The activities of Doctor and Parent details are as follows:

View vaccination:

Use case diagram for Doctor

represents the use case diagram for Doctor with the

activities is provided

Children details:
.
Use case diagram for Parent

3.The main use cases for Doctor and parent are

represented in the Figure 6 and 7 respectively. Separate
access privileges to Doctor and Parents are provided for
both web and mobile applications. Parent accesses his/her
child vaccination and medical history details whereas the
Doctor can view the complete child details along with
vaccination and previous medical history records.

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View children: [3] Kamal Karkonasasi1, Cheah Yu-N2, SeyedAliakbar

Mousavi3 School of Computer Sciences, UniversitiSains
Malaysia (USM), Penang, 11800, Malaysia.
Email:asasi.kamal@gmail.com, yncheah@usm.my
pouyaye@gmail.com.

[4] Vivian H. Alfonso1,2, Anna Bratcher1, Hayley

Ashbaugh1, Reena Doshi1, Adva Gadoth1, Nicole Hoff1,
Patrick Mukadi3, Angie Ghanem1, Alvan ChengI1, Sue
Gerber4, Guillaume Ngoie Mwamba5, Jean Jacques
Muyembe Tamfum3, Emile Okitolonda Wemakoy6, Anne
W. Rimoin1.

[5] 1SourabhShastri* 2Anand Sharma 3Prof.

VibhakarMansotra Department of Computer Science &
IT, Bhaderwah Campus, University of Jammu, J&K, India
VI. CONCLUSION 2,3 Department of Computer Science & IT, University of
Jammu, J&K, India.
The use of mobile phones increased as the number
of users has dramatically risen; where mobile phones [6] SantoshiKumari, Haripriya.A, Aruna.A, Vidya.D.S,
have become part of people’s lives. Child Care Unit Nithya.M.N Department of Computer Science and
App can be applied in a health centre and the parents Engineering M S Ramaiah University of Applied
who need this service can register all the required Sciences Bengaluru, India Santoshik29@gmail.com,
information about their children in a health centre. The avadhanampriya@gmail.com,
goal of this project is to help parents to receive SMS arunakore08071992@gmail.com,
messages that provide time specific information about vidya.28satish@gmail.com,nithya.acs15@gmail.com.
their children vaccination appointment. It may help
parents in ensuring that children vaccination is taken as [7] s.joselenapercy jehane1, d janani2, m kaarunya3, k
scheduled. This would lead to immunize children nivethitha4 ISSN: 2395-0056.
against diseases and prevent the spread of diseases.
[8] NukhbaAfzal, Dept. of Computer Science and IT,
TheIslamiaUniv.of Bahawalpur, Pakistan AmnahFirdous,
VII. FUTURE ENHANCEMENT Dept. of Computer Science, CIIT, Vehari, HinaAsmat
,Dept. of Computer Science and IT The Islamia Univ. of
In the future, this app will integrate more apps Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
option to our main application to make it a more
sophisticated auto-help tool and provide a wide range of [9] MuhammadAmith and Cui Tao.
facilities to the user. These app will include provides
reminder to the parents about their children medications [10] YuhanisbintiYusofAsamHameAbbas
which help them to take medicine on time. Therefore Dept.InformationTechnology Dept.Information
through these reminders, the user will take care of their TechnologyUniversity Utara Malaysia University
children health and Graphs of the output obtained will Utara Malaysia
help the user to keep track of the changes to manage their Kedah,MalaysiaKedah,Malaysia
daily food and health in a more effective way. yuhanis@uum.edu.my
essamiraq2010@yahoo.com
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[1] K.Obahiagbon Department of Mathematics and

Computer science Benson Idahosa University Edo State,
Nigeria. E-mail: kobahiagbon@biu.edu.ng

[2] B.B.Odigie Department of Management Information

System uchi Polytechnic, Edo State,Nigeria.
E-mail: ditsciences@yahoo.com.

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