Building a Web-based Health Promotion Database
Ádám Rutkovszky
University of Debrecen, Faculty of Economics
Department of Economics
adam.rutkovszky@econ.unideb.hu
Abstract
A research on health promotion programs in Hungary was conducted by The School of Public Health at University of Debrecen, Medical and Health Science Centre. A questionnaire was sent out to institutions and organization A data model for storing information on filled questionnaires was developed and a database was built up. A web-based application was developed for both querying and administering above-mentioned programs.
In this paper we investigate some crucial questions that may arise during development of such applications. We describe problems of user authentication in web-based solutions, which is essential when using limited access or web-based administration. Data validation techniques that can be applied in case of form-based user input are examined also. General application-level web security problems containing form modification and SQL attacks are described. To achieve greater publicity to a web page or web site it is important to submit it to search engines. Submitting information contained in databases to search engines is also an interesting question and is also discussed.
We demonstrate implementation of a possible solution to each of these problems. We describe the hardware and software environment of the application created.