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Using Patient Pathway Analysis to Design Patient-centered Referral Networks for Diagnosis and Treatment of Tuberculosis: The Case of the Philippines

This paper looks into how using the patient pathway analysis have “identified opportunities for strengthening access to care for all forms of tuberculosis and for accelerating the time to diagnosis by aligning services to where patients initiate care” and that “geographic variations in care seeking may guide prioritization of some regions for intensified engagement with…

Philippines Health Facility Development Plan 2020-2040

This document articulates the required investment for health facilities in the Philippines and presents as a use case of the health facility master list of the country. Original URL

Optimizing health facility location for universal health care: A case study from the Philippines

This paper looks into using a variation of cooperative covering maximal models to identify the optimal location of primary care facilities in the Philippines using open source data. Original URL.

Constructing and validating a transferable epidemic risk index in data scarce environments using open data: A case study for dengue in the Philippines

This study to assess the risk of dengue in the Philippines introduces “a methodology to construct and validate an epidemic risk index using only open data, with a specific focus on scalability. The external validation of [the] risk index makes use of distance sampling to correct for underreporting of infections, which is often a major…

Introduction to Geospatial Data Management and Technologies for Malaria Programs

These are the training materials used during the training workshop on the Introduction to Geospatial Data Management and Technologies for Malaria Programs to strengthen Malaria programs’ technical skills and practices to manage and use geospatial data and technologies. It was held on 25-28 March 2019 in Manila, Philippines and made possible through the collaboration of London…

DOH GIS/GPS Guidelines and Standards

This document contains the guidelines and standards followed by the Department of Health of the Philippines for the management and use of geospatial data and technologies. This helps ensure the quality and accuracy of geospatial data collected and used for the health sector in the country.

ENSURE: Geolocating health facility attendees to map malaria in the Philippines and Indonesia

A case study on how the ENSURE project demonstrated the utility of tablet-based approaches to collect spatial information on patients attending and other easy access group surveys to provide a better understanding of the distribution of disease.

Use of mobile technology‑based participatory mapping approaches to geolocate health facility attendees for disease surveillance in low resource settings

Article describing the method used and results obtained in two rural sites in the Philippines and Indonesia to collect the place of residence health facility attendees during a survey as part of a malaria elimination campaign. Original URL

Geographic Accessibility to Maternity Care Package (MCP) Accredited Facilities Analysis

This study analysed how accessible MCP accredited facilities are to NHTS-PR registered beneficiaries (members and dependents) of PhilHealth over the Mindanao island as well as identify potential gaps towards achieving Universal Health Care in this part of the country.

Geographic Accessibility to Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (EmONC) – Region XII (Soccsksargen)

This study analysed how accessible EmONC facilities are to the population in Region XII as well as identified potential gaps towards achieving Universal Health Care in this part of the country.

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