DHIS 2 User Manual


Table of Contents

1. What is DHIS 2?
1.1. Background of The District Health Information Software – Version 2 (DHIS 2)
1.2. Purpose of DHIS2
1.3. Difference between Aggregated and Patient data in a HMIS
1.4. Use of DHIS 2 in HMIS: data collection, processing, interpretation, and analysis.
1.5. Overview of DHIS 2.0
1.5.1. The different modules of DHIS 2
1.5.2. Web-based versus standalone HMIS and their suitability
1.5.3. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS): benefits and challenges
1.5.4. Understanding platform independency
1.5.5. Auxiliary software that can be used with DHIS
2. Getting started with DHIS 2
2.1. Getting started with DHIS2
2.1.1. Downloading and installing the desktop version
2.1.2. Downloading and installing the server version
2.1.3. Starting the DHIS2 Live package
2.2. Logging on to DHIS2
2.3. Creating new users and roles
2.3.1. Open User Menu
2.3.2. Define a new role
2.3.3. Add New User
2.4. Logging off of DHIS2
3. Data entry with DHIS2
3.1. Learning Objectives
3.2. Opening the “Data Entry” screen
3.3. Navigate organisation tree and select organisation unit
3.4. Entering data
4. Maintainence module
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Data administration
4.2.1. Data browser
4.2.2. Data integrity
4.2.3. Resource tables
4.2.4. Data statistics
4.2.5. Data locking
4.2.6. Maintainence
4.2.7. Cache Statistics
5. Data elements and indicators
5.1. Data elements
5.1.1. Data element maintence
5.1.2. Data element group maintainece
5.1.3. Data element group editor
5.1.4. Data element group sets
6. Import and export of data with DHIS2
6.1. What is import and export?
6.2. Exporting data
6.2.1. Exporting from DHIS2
6.2.2. Importing data
6.3. Importing data
6.3.1. DXF Import
7. Aggregation and reporting
7.1. An overview of how aggregation takes place and rules of the system
7.1.1. Terminology
7.1.2. Basic rules of aggregation
7.1.3. Dimensions of aggregation
7.1.4. Aggregation operators, methods for aggregation
7.1.5. Advanced aggregation settings (aggregation levels)
7.2. Reports
7.2.1. Report tables
7.2.2. BIRT reports
8. DHIS 2 GIS User Manual
8.1. Conversion of geographical data to GeoJSON format
8.1.1. Production of GeoJSON files with Geoserver
8.1.2. Production of GeoJSON files with GDAL
8.1.3. Copying files to the DHIS application
8.2. Administrator panel
8.3. Registering geographical information
8.4. Assign organization units to map
8.5. Register overlays
8.6. Thematic map
8.7. Register views
8.8. Register legend sets
A. DHIS2 Excel Report Module User Manual
A.1. Introduction
A.2. Advantages of the Excel report module
A.3. Requirements of the Excel™ report module
A.4. Main features in Excel Report module
A.5. How to use Excel Reporting Module
A.5.1. Creating an Excel Report template file
A.5.2. Create a new report in DHIS2 with Excel report template file
A.5.3. Assign report
A.5.4. Generate report
A.5.5. Import data values from Excel file to DHIS
B. DHIS Documentation Guide
B.1. DHIS 2 Documentation System Overview
B.2. Introduction
B.3. Getting started with Launchpad
B.4. Getting the document source
B.5. Editing the documentation
B.6. Using images
B.7. Linking documents together
B.8. Handling multilingual documentation
B.9. Building the documentation
B.9.1. Building the documentation with Apache maven
B.9.2. Building with xmlto
B.10. Committing your changes back to Launchpad
C. DHIS Technical Architecture Guide
C.1. Overview
C.2. Technical Requirements
C.3. Project Structure
C.4. The Data Model
C.5. The Persistence Layer
C.6. The Business Layer
C.6.1. The JDBC Service Project
C.6.2. The Import-Export Project
C.6.3. The Data Mart Project
C.6.4. The Reporting Project
C.7. The Presentation Layer
C.7.1. The Portal
C.8. Framework Stack
C.8.1. Application Frameworks
C.8.2. Development Frameworks

List of Figures

1.1. The health information cycle

List of Tables

6.1.