Healthsites emergency health data validation workshop
- Date: 14–16th — February 2022
- Venue: Centre des Opérations d’Urgence Sanitaire - Dakar Senegal
- Project: COVIDaction Vaccine Data Co-Lab
In this three day workshop we developed a health facility data validation method with Senegal’s Centre des Opérations d’Urgence Sanitaire (COUS), La Direction de la Planification, de la Recherche et des Statistiques (DPRS), OpenStreetMap Senegal.
The workshop and the validation method was funded by the COVIDaction Vaccine Data Co-Lab developing capacity for vaccine deployment.
Workshop participants:
- Ministère de la Santé et de l’Action Sociale
- OpenStreetMap Senegal
- Centre des Opérations d’Urgence Sanitaire (COUS)
- Afrimapr
- La Direction de la Planification, de la Recherche et des Statistiques (DPRS)
- The Global Healthsites mapping project
- Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
The method
- Compare data sets to consolidate naming convention between COUS, DPRS and OpenStreetMap.
- Identify priority attributes from the emergency health user stories.
- Visit facilities in the field to validate the data attributes.
Healthsites is driving the development of baseline health facility data through the development of emergency health user stories.
Our goal is improve open and accessible baseline health facility data with OpenStreetMap. Our strategy is to drive the development of the data through emergency health user stories.
As a pregnant women I want to have access to an ambulance or convenient transportation should I need emergency health services during labor.
From this user story we were able to identify the facilities in the district of Saint Louis that offer emergency services and the need for funded transportation services.
In addition the workshop participants identified the valuable work that the neighborhood godmother or Badienou gokh plays in supporting this user story.
The increased data availability will help public health service providers design COVID-19 response plans and vaccination campaigns as well as identify gaps and pressure points within the healthcare system.
The work builds on an action plan established with the DPRS in 2019 :
- Establish a tool for the publication of a shared referential of health infrastructures
- Develop a workflow between OpenStreetMap and the Ministry’s database to ensure interoperability
- Implement a field pilot at a regional level, to both prove the scalability of our solution
- Utilize and refine the sharing workflow to make it sustainable.
Healthsites strategy
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