Driving the development of baseline health facility data in OpenStreetMap with priority emergency health user stories The method Identify priority attributes from the emergency health user stories. Local OpenStreetMap users visit facilities in the field to validate the data attributes. The validated data is updated in OpenStreetMap Read more and interact with data..

Depuis Avril 2019, Healthsites.io, en partenariat avec Cartong, Géomatica et la communauté OpenStreetMap Sénégal, a lancé une série d’activités dans le but de cartographier les structures sanitaires au Sénégal. Faudrait noter que cette collaboration est possible grâce à la rencontre de 2017 au niveau du Dakar Data Champion organisé par IFRC…

This study demonstrates the potential of routine household surveys to empirically model health care utilisation for the treatment of childhood fever and define catchment populations enhancing the possibilities of accurate commodity needs assessment and calculation of disease incidence. These methods could be extended to other African countries where detailed mapping of health facilities exists. https://ij-healthgeographics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-072X-11-6

A selection of assets from the The Global Healthsites Mapping project Analysing OSM Completeness of health facilities in Sub-Sahara Africa in ohsomeHeX

RESPONSE STRATEGY The overall goal of the strategic preparedness and response plan is to stop further transmission of 2019‐nCoV within China and to other countries, and to mitigate the impact of the outbreak in all countries. Taking the above into account, the strategic objectives of the plan are to: Limit…

Healthsites returned to Saint Louis in July 2019 and together with surveyors from OpenStreetMap Senegal, Geomatica and CartONG, collected 104 facilities in the district of Saint Louis. This data was saved to OpenStreetMap and shared with the Senegalese Ministry of Health. The Regional Head of the Ministry of Health for…

For the start of the pilot phase of the Healthsites project in Saint Louis of Senegal , a series of meetings, with the Health actors, was conducted in the period from 09 to 16 April 2019 by Mark Herringer , leader of the Healthsites project and of Mohamet Lamine NDIAYE…

Meaningful incentivised opportunities for citizens to participate Opportunities for Governments to get feedback on service delivery Incentives for Governments to collaborate and improve service delivery How to support open source applications and activate business models focused on Sustainable Development Goals? What incentives are there for citizens and social start-up businesses to support Ministries of Health, NGO’s and private companies with service delivery?

Healthsites is building a global commons of health facility data by making OpenStreetMap useful to the medical community and humanitarian sector. This open data approach invites organisations to share health facility data and collaborate to establish an accessible global baseline of health facility data. Human Centered Design to drive the…