Document – Health GeoLab Collaborative

State of the Pacific’s RMNCAH Workforce Report 2019

This report looks into the reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) of 15 countries in the Pacific Region particularly the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of RMNCAH to determine if the health system and its workforce are providing effective coverage. To determine the geographical accessibility of the RMNCAH workforce, an accessibility analysis was…

Spatiotemporal epidemiology, environmental correlates, and demography of malaria in Tak Province, Thailand (2012–2015)

The paper looked into the patterns of malaria incidence and possible drivers of transmission over space and time in Tak Province from 2012-2015. Original URL

Best Practices in Innovations in Microplanning for Polio Eradication

Document presenting the best practices particularly in using GIS to improve the quality of microplans aiming toward polio eradication. Original URL

Using geospatial data and analytics to guide reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health programs: Journal Supplement 5

A set of documents from the BMJ Global Health Journals on the different uses of geospatial data and analytics in public health.

Guidance for the management and use of geospatial data and technologies in health: Part 2 – Implementing the geospatial data management cycle: 2.5 Cleaning, validating, and documenting the data – 2.5.2 Using advanced Microsoft Excel functions

Guidance describing the operations needed to check, clean, or validate compiled and/or collected data and how these operations can be performed using the advanced functions in Microsoft Excel.

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.

Upstream watershed condition predicts rural children’s health across 35 developing countries

This University of Vermont-led study is the first to calculate how watershed forests improve the health of children around the world. The study focuses on diarrheal disease due to contaminated water as it is a major cause of child mortality globally. Original URL.

Starter kit – Migration to ArcGIS Pro

Starter kit helping prepare experienced ArcMap users to be productive right away in using ArcGIS Pro by providing users with essential ArcGIS Pro terminology and getting them familiar with the ribbon-based user interface. This document highlights key differences between ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro in mapping, editing, and geoprocessing workflows and demonstrates new and streamlined capabilities…

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.

HIS geo-enabling – Geospatial data management guideline (MOHS, Myanmar)

This document has been developed to guide the Ministry of Health and Sports of Myanmar on the standards, practices and protocols to be implemented as part of the geospatial data management cycle and this to ensure for the availability, quality and accessibility of geospatial data for the health sector in the country.

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