Information system specification for risk microárea using object oriented approach

Abstract

The family health program is a strategy to support the health assistance through educational, promotional and preventional actions to health care. As working method, the family health program teams recognize the community trying to identify areas of greatest risk (micro areas) for planning actions. So, for being possible to plan the actions, the teams have to use data from several information systems. However, these information systems do not have always updated data or may not provide data about the area conditions. Thus, the objective of this study is to present the information system specification concerning the environmental and infrastructure conditions of the area in order to contribute for having an updated and specific information storage and retrieval. It is a development research conducted in Curitiba-PR/Brazil, from January to June of 2007, using brainstorm to define the system requirements and the object-oriented paradigm for its specification, applying the Unified Modeling Language (UML). As a result, the use case, sequence and class diagrams were obtained. Indeed, the system deployment with the features proposed in this study may help and expedite the process of local planning and may even help in the analysis of the relationship between environment and health, with updated data.