Android A

lication for Bab

Immunization Schedule

Erwin Sutanto

1,*

, Chintya Mortisalma Romadhon

, Fadilla Rahmania Kamil

, and Iqbal Maulana

Rahman

Biomedical Engineering, Airlangga University, Mulyorejo, Surabaya, Indonesia

Keywords: Immunization, Child Health, Android, UML, Java

Abstract: In this era, the usage of android phones is increasing. It is undeniable that people are more helped with the

existence of mobile phones. It supports many aspects in life including health, for instance can be utilized to

help patient, doctor, and government in coordination. Besides, it can decrease cost, time, and distance

limitations. Most importantly, it can be the solution for the government immunization program. It is

infrequently find out that both parents are working in the urban areas. Sometimes, this situation leads them

ignore in taking care of their children. Therefore, an android application (app) for immunization would be

very helpful, especially for parents in urban areas for providing a basic immunization schedule and its

related information. The development of the app would be discussed further consisting the method, designs,

and views of the app.

INTRODUCTION

Immunization is important for a person to fight

against any dangerous deadly diseases, especially for

children health’s problems. The Indonesian

government pays attention to this by carrying out

several activities. One of them is by providing a

practical handbook of immunization, and also doing

socialization (Kemenkes RI Website, 2017).

Immunization is usually given for several diseases in

children on their early age, but it is depending on the

type of immunization. Several types are not

adequate if it is only given once thereby it should be

done gradually. In fact, immunization still has great

definitions that require a guide for parents to make

well-implemented action.

According to data on Indonesian’s health profile

from the ministry of health, immunization coverage

in Indonesia is 91.58%. Mandatory immunization

coverage are 93% for measles, 92.2% for polio,

93.3% for DPT, 87.5% for hepatitis B, and 93% for

BCG (Kemenkes RI, 2017). It means that most of

immunization in Indonesia has reached more than

90% of target. Then, there are also few mandatory

immunizations, which are still below 90%. The

reason may be derive from the geographical

obstacles because the program has not reached all

areas. However, this situation still can be improved.

There are many things affecting immunization in

this modern era. Mobility, as the example, has a high

number in urban area due to the various needs of

life. This also faces higher possibility of increasing

congestion (Wijaya, 2018). Then, it is no

infrequently find out both parents are working due to

high cost of living. Furthermore in this global era,

there is also an increasing number of career women

especially in Surabaya (Laksmiwati, 2018) which

can also support the case. The possibility is the

parent leaving the children with baby sitter or nanny.

This situation leads their ignorance of taking care

children and incidentally forget the children’s

immunization schedule.

A practical handbook of immunization, which has

been socialized, is focusing on maternal and child

health titled “Buku Kesehatan Ibu dan Anak”,

abbreviated as BKIA. This book is provided by the

government and expected also to help patient,

doctor, and government. However, the risk of using

a kind of book also needs to be considered because

the use of paper may be wet due to water. It might

be not practical because it could be left behind or

missing. Due to this problem, mobile phone is more

useful to be implemented. Moreover, many practical

works could be done easily in one hand using mobile

phone, which widely used by people in daily

activities. Thus, additional practical handbook is

built in android based mobile phone, for example,

mDROID system is designed for health workers

Sutanto, E., Romadhon, C., Kamil, F. and Rahman, I.

Android Application for Baby Immunization Schedule.

DOI: 10.5220/0007546005110514

In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference Postgraduate School (ICPS 2018), pages 511-514

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(Kansal, 2014). This present study invention tries to

follow this trend by making android application

(app) for immunization. It is expected to provide a

basic immunization schedule and its related

information. Therefore, it would be very helpful,

especially for parents in urban areas.

The purpose of the application is giving information

about several mandatory immunizations and its

schedule for children. It will be the guidance for

parents as another form of practical handbook of

immunization as well as help the government in

succeeding their immunization program.

2 METHODOLOGY

This android application of immunization was

analyzed and designed using Unified Modelling

Language (UML). Thus, the designs were

implemented using java-programming language in

Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

2.1 UML Diagram

Unified Modelling Language (UML) could be used

for visualizing, specifying, and designing a program.

It also has capability to connect with many

programming languages, such as Java (Lethbridge,

2001). UML itself could be used to make different

kinds of diagrams, for instance in smartphone

development which can be used up to nine diagrams

(Wang, 2011). Meanwhile, in this research only used

three important diagrams, namely case diagram,

activity diagram, and class diagram.

The use of case diagram shows the functionality of

the application and the interactions of the system

with the user. Besides, it can be used to describe the

user’s requirements and show the system process. It

also contains an actor, and use case component

which is represented in Figure 1. It shows that the

user is able to access schedule, information, “QnA”

(Question and Answer) of immunizations for a child.

Then, there is also a view for further request about

the application.

Activity diagrams for this android application is

used to describe the flow of various activities in

using the application, how each flow begins, when

decisions are made, and how the application ends.

Activity diagrams also describe parallel processes

occurred in some activities. An activity can be

realized by one or more cases, which have been

shown at use case diagram. An activity describes the

running process, while the use case describes how

the actor uses the system to perform the activity

(Fowler, 2004).

In Figure 2, the diagram activity presents the

navigation of user interfaces in the android’s

application. After the application starts, it has a

welcoming screen as a splash screen. After that, the

main menu will be launched and the user can go to

any other four views. They are schedule,

information, “QnA” (question and answer), and

about. The user is able to choose their interest view.

Then, they can go back to the main menu.

Figure 1: Use Case Diagram

Figure 2: Activity Diagram

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Class diagrams are the visualization of the classes of

a system, which categorized as the most widely used

types of diagrams. This diagram shows the

relationships between classes and details of each

class in a system. The class object has three main

fields, namely class, attributes, and operations. The

name of class serves to give an identity to a class.

The function of the attribute is to show the data

belonging to a class. Lastly, operation is to assign

any functions and procedures designed for the class

(Wang, 2011).

There were 6 layouts in the designed application: (1)

activity_main.xml which was shown for welcome

screen; (2) mainmenu.xml for main menu; (3)

submenu.xml for the immunization’s schedule; (4)

submenu1.xml for information view; (5)

submenu2.xml for question and answer view; (6)

submenu3.xml for a view.

2.2 Java Android Programming

Java Android programming language, used in this

work, is a programming language that can be run on

various computers including mobile phones

(Mednieks, 2012). Meanwhile, Android is an

operating system for mobile phones based on Linux.

The Java Android programming language is kind of

Java language used specifically for applications in

Android’s operating system. For the development, it

is used an Android SDK (Software Development

Kit) which provides tool kit for the compilation, and

APIs (Application Programming Interface) as the

library. Those were required for developers to create

and develop applications for Android based mobile

phones using common Java programming language

(Safaat, 2012).

3 RESULT AND DISCUSSION

The first window of the application is a welcoming

screen. The view is the first one shown up once the

user launches the application and contains the

application name and logo.

The main menu layout contains four image buttons,

which has been described before at UML diagrams.

Each button activated another screen following its

purpose. The schedule contains the list of mandatory

immunization which parent must have for their

children at specific age. The information cover the

detailed information of any particular immunization,

for example the purpose of measles’s immunization.

Besides, the “QnA” (question and answer) provide

common questions and answers about immunization.

Lastly, the contacts detail is mentioned to give a

Figure 4: Class Diagram

Figure 3: Welcome Screen and Main Menu Layout

Figure 5: Schedule and Info Layout

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contact developer directly for any critics or

suggestions.

Figure 5 shows the schedule and info’s layout. If the

user chooses the schedule on menu, they will get

basic immunization schedule. It contains pair of

baby’s age and the immunization type that parent

should give for their children. Then, info layout

contained the purpose of immunization as well as its

related information.

The “QnA” layout is list of common questions and

answers related to the immunization in form of

general explanation to answer common assumptions

on immunization. It is not displayed on the

information layout, for example the explanation

about safety immunization. Lastly, “About” layout

contains the developer’s email thereby user can send

critics or suggestions for the application’s

improvement.

4 CONCLUSION

Immunization’s information is important to be

socialized to increase the awareness of people to

take part in immunization. Nowadays, the best

method by is creating android application. The

application has been realized in this work and

provided a basic schedule as well as related

information of mandatory immunizations as a

practical handbook of immunization. It would help

parents to understand the importance of

immunization for their children, and achieve more

about related information easily.

The development of the android application has been

discussed. It utilized UML diagrams for the designs

and implemented using Java Android. Six views of

the application has been shown and explained. The

application has also been published on google play

store and the contacts detail has been put also at one

of its view. The improvement of application could

be following to user’s input in the future.

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Figure 6: QnA and About Layout

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