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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.

Guidance on operational microplanning for COVID-19 vaccination

This document provides operational guidance and information to support planners and immunization programme managers at the national and sub-national levels on microplanning for COVID-19 vaccination implementation. This publication is a companion document to the National Deployment and Vaccination Plans guidance, which provides a framework for countries to develop their national strategies.

Guidance on developing a national deployment and vaccination plan for COVID-19 vaccines (2nd version)

This document published by WHO and UNICEF is a global guidance providing the framework for countries on how to develop their national deployment and vaccination plans (NDVPs). This guidance includes the use of geospatial data and digital micro plans for equitable access and delivery of COVID-19 vaccine.

Expanding and improving urban outreach immunisation in Patna, India

This document presents a case study of an urban immunization outreach strategy to determine the feasibility of the intervention and to measure administrative immunization coverage outcomes.

Microplanning for Immunization Service Delivery Using the Reaching Every District (RED) Strategy

This document is a guide on how to produce microplans for immunization service delivery using the Reaching Every District (RED) strategy. The guide uses a ‘bottom-up’ approach: it starts with health facility (service delivery) microplans which will then be put together to make the district microplan.

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…

Physical Accessibility to Health Services Study (2019)

This document presents the study done to assess the physical accessibility to health services in Vanuatu. The results of the study were obtained by undertaking a set of GIS-based analyses using a tool called AccessMod 5.0.

Implementation Support Guide: Development of a National Georeferenced Community Health Worker Master List hosted in a registry

“This implementation support guidance presents principles for a national, georeferenced Community Health Worker Master List (CHWML) and a seven-step process for generating, sharing and maintaining such list in a registry. Each step includes a decision checklist and key considerations for planning and implementation. The guide also includes tools to evaluate the current state of a…

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