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GIS FOR DENGUE EPIDEMIC MANAGEMENT FOR IPOHIBATU GAJAHfi'BD

By

ABD MUHAIMIN SYAHMAN B. MOHD NOAH

FINAL YEAR PROJECT REPORT

Submitted to the Civil Engineering Programme in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

for the Degree

Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) (Civil Engineering)

U niversiti Teknologi Petronas Bandar Seri Iskandar

31750 Tronoh Perak Darul Ridzuan

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CERTIFICATION OF APPROVAL

GIS FOR DENGUE EPIDEMIC MANAGEMENT FOR IPOHIBATU GAJAHffBD

Approved:

by

ABD MUHAIMIN SYAHMAN B. MOHD NOAH 2806

A project dissertation submitted to the Civil Engineering Programme Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the

Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) (Civil Engineering)

Dr. A Nasrr Maton, Project Supervisor

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI PETRONAS TRONOH, PERAK

June2006

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CERTIFICATION OF ORIGINALITY

This is to certify that I am responsible for the work submitted in this project, that the original work is my own except as specified in the references and acknowledgements, and that the original work contained herein have not been undertaken or done by unspecified sources or persons.

Abd MJhaimin Syahman b. Mohd Ngah

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ABSTRACT

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has proven to be one of the most useful tools in public health research. It has been widely used in disease surveillance and monitoring, research hypotheses generation, identification of high-risk area and population at-risk, targeting resources and the monitoring of interventions. GIS provides an effective tool for visualization and spatial analysis of epidemiology data and enviromnental exposure. Recent studies have shown the increasing use of GIS as an important component in public health and epidemiology. This research will utilize the spatial analytical tools in GIS to establish the relationship between dengue fever cases, road/railway and drainage system distribution, and usage of septic tank factors that contribute to dengue fever transmission. This undertaking of building a GIS- based dengue fever investigation and surveillance system will aid in better health mapping and analysis compared to conventional methods. It will provide the epidemiologist with an effective tool to identify the environmental factors and mosquito breeding sites at risk related to the dengue outbreak. With detailed mapping and modeling of localized outbreaks, prevention and control activities can be implemented for instance. The successful implementation of GIS technology in disease investigation and surveillance will help to increase the awareness of GIS technology in the public health sector.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First and foremost, I would like to praise God Almighty and thank Him for this countless blessing and guidance throughout the hard times I have endured through and through. Without Him, I am sure I would not have made it this far.

I would like to express my fullest appreciation and highest gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Abd Nasir Matori for his guidance and endless advice, the knowledge offered and the time spent in improving this project.

Last but not least warm thank you to my fellow friends, who helped contributed and shared their ideas, thus helped to enhance the project one way or other.

Thank you.

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4.4 Correlation of Dengue Fever and Septic Tank (Hypothesis 3) ... 23

CHAPTER 5 DISCUSSION ... 26

CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION ... 29

APPENDICES ... 30

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LIST OF TABLES

Table I: Location of Dengue Epidemic in Kinta 2005 ... 20

Table 2: Result for Hypothesis 1.. ... 21

Table 3: Result for Hypothesis 2 ... 22

Table 4: Result for Hypothesis 3 ... 23

Table 5: Summary of the result ... 24

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure I: Aedes aegypti ... 6

Figure 2: Maplnfo 7.0 software ... 7

Figure 3: Kinta area from Google Earth software ... 8

Figure 4: Data are collected layer by layer ... 9

Figure 5: Dengue cases at Kampung Pasir is beside the road ... 10

Figure 6: Poor drainage system ... II Figure 7: Toilet bowl.. ... 12

Figure 8: Diagram for hypothesis ... 13

Figure 9: Diagram for project work ... 14

Figure 10: Register for raster image ... 14

Figure II: Convert from hard copy to soft copy map ... 15

Figure 12: Digitalize the map. Road is pink color ... 15

Figure 13: Digitalize the map. Drainage is turquoise color ... 16

Figure 14: Layer control option to view the layer.. ... 16

Figure 15: Dengue case locations in red cross ... 17

Figure 16: Railway Quarters, B. Gajah is beside the road ... 17

Figure 17: Septic tank in red circle ... 18

Figure 18: Dengue case locations in Kinta area ... l9 Figure 19: Percentage of road factor to dengue fever ... 21

Figure 21: Percentage of drainage system factor to dengue fever ... 22

Figure 22: Percentage of septic tank factor to dengue fever. ... 23

Figure 23: Comparison result for the hypothesis has been made ... 25

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