Urban Health Atlas
A Few Features
of Urban Health Atlas
Finding closest referral facility and best route to take
Assessing coverage of critical emergency services
Population density map and clustering
Filtering to find a particular facility
Background
- The unregulated proliferation of the urban private health care sector in LMICs like Bangladesh is a serious policy concern. More rational planning, however, requires systematic methods of documenting and analyzing facility service information, as per WHO’s recommendation for the creation of a Master Facility List. Given growing geographic and socioeconomic inequities in urban health, there is a critical need for tools that facilitate evidence-based planning for effective coverage of urban health services.
- A novel ICT tool – the Urban Health Atlas (UHA) – based on a geospatial analysis conducted by icddr,b, has the potential for providing critical facility information to decision makers involved in healthcare policy and planning.
What it is
An interactive web-based visualization tool that shows the location and service details of healthcare service providers in Bangladesh’s major cities.
Why it matters
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To improve health service planning, referral and oversight in urban Bangladesh
What it offers
- Provides detailed information about all urban health facilities and their location on a live map
- Permits filtering to show different kinds of facilities and the services they provide (e.g. NGO satellite clinics, immunization centres, public and private hospitals, diagnostic centres etc.)
- Allows users to search for closest or preferred facility by name or type of service required
- Gives information on shortest distance between one facility and another to enable rational planning for referral
- Visualizes service coverage by population density at the ward level
- Helps planners identify gaps or clustering of specific types of services
- Enables creation of helpful graphs and tables
- Can be linked with other databases to show coverage of waste disposal, public toilets, registration and licensing information, emergency sites for earthquake or epidemic response, and much more…..
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City Corporations 2
Municipality
* Dhaka City Corporation has divided and re-created as Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on 04 December, 2011
Timeline
of Data Collection
2012-2013
Methods
of Data Collection
Official permissions obtained from City Corporation and MoHFW
Permissions
Creation of base map for City Corporation (CC)
Base map
Collection of geo-codes for all facilities
Geo-codes
Implementation of health facility survey
Implementation
Verification of survey data with City Corporation, and other stakeholders
Verification
Incorporation of survey and geospatial data into the Urban Health Atlas
Health Atlas
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