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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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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This document is a resource for developing an action plan to improve data in an MFL through the use of the SQUAD Tool. It provides detailed instructions on how to prepare the data for use with the tool and how to run the SQUAD Tool with a typical country MFL. It also provides recommendations on…
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This pager describes the process being followed by the Ministry of Health of Malaysia to geo-enable their Health Information System and this is primarily through the integration of GIS capability in the Malaysia Health Data Warehouse (MyHDW) project.
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This article shows field of medical geographic information systems (Medical GIS) has become extremely useful in understanding the bigger picture of public health. Original URL
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Informed decision-making leads to the development of effective public health policy based on evidence. This article shows why geography is important for public health policy. Original URL
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The study demonstrates that using mobile technologies and GIS in the capture and reporting of NHIS data in Papua New Guinea provides timely, high quality, geo-coded, case-based malaria data required for malaria elimination. Original URL
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