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You will find here documents, links, videos,… pertaining to the 9 elements of the HIS geo-enabling framework as implemented in Asia and Pacific or beyond.

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Using Patient Pathway Analysis to Design Patient-centered Referral Networks for Diagnosis and Treatment of Tuberculosis: The Case of the PhilippinesThis paper looks into how using the patient pathway analysis have “identified opportunities for strengthening …Download
Philippines Health Facility Development Plan 2020-2040This document articulates the required investment for health facilities in the Philippines and presents as …Download
Optimizing health facility location for universal health care: A case study from the PhilippinesThis paper looks into using a variation of cooperative covering maximal models to identify the …Download
SQUAD: A Tool for Spatial Quality and Anomalies Diagnosis – Documentation and Tutorial (QGIS version)This package includes the documentation, sample data, and tutorial on how to use MEASURE Evaluation’s …, Download
SQUAD: A Tool for Spatial Quality and Anomalies Diagnosis – Documentation and Tutorial (ArcGIS version)This package includes the documentation, sample data, and tutorial on how to use MEASURE Evaluation’s …, Download
Spatial Quality and Anomalies Diagnosis (SQUAD) ToolThis site provides information on the Spatial Quality and Anomalies Diagnosis (SQUAD) tool created by …Link
Guidance on operational microplanning for COVID-19 vaccinationThis document provides operational guidance and information to support planners and immunization programme managers at …Download
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 …Download
Expanding and improving urban outreach immunisation in Patna, IndiaThis document presents a case study of an urban immunization outreach strategy to determine the …Download
Microplanning for Immunization Service Delivery Using the Reaching Every District (RED) StrategyThis document is a guide on how to produce microplans for immunization service delivery using …Download
Constructing and validating a transferable epidemic risk index in data scarce environments using open data: A case study for dengue in the PhilippinesThis study to assess the risk of dengue in the Philippines introduces “a methodology to …Download
Physical Accessibility to Health Services Study (2019)This document presents the study done to assess the physical accessibility to health services in …Download
Esri’s Health Information System Modernization: A GIS Curriculum“This site contains hands-on tutorials to enhance the geospatial capacity of health stakeholders. By promoting …, , Link
Common Geo-Registry (CGR) (Information page)This site provides information on the Common Geo-Registry including how it works, use cases, link …Link
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 …Download
Guidance for the management and use of geospatial data and technologies in health: Part 2.4 Creating geospatial data: 2.4.1 Extracting vector format geospatial data from basemapsGuidance describing the steps in extracting vector format geospatial data from basemapsDownload
Ethical Considerations When Using Geospatial Technologies for Evidence GenerationThis document is an example of policies governing the use of geospatial technologies. It discusses …Download
Example of Terms of reference for the Technical Working Group on the management and use of geospatial data and technologies in the health sectorThis document presents an example terms of reference for the Technical Working Group on the …Download
Visualizing the Geography of the Diseases of China: Western Disease Maps from Analytical Tools to Tools of Empire, Sovereignty, and Public Health Propaganda, 1878–1929A journal article analyzing “for the first time the earliest western maps of diseases in …Link
Using geospatial data and analytics to guide reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health programs: Journal Supplement 5A set of documents from the BMJ Global Health Journals on the different uses of …, Download
Geospatial Health (Official journal of the International Society of Geospatial Health)This journal focuses on all aspects of the application of geographical information systems, remote sensing, …, , Download
WHO GIS Centre for HealthWHO’s GIS Centre for Health includes geospatial analytics, capacity building, partnerships and collaboration, geospatial culture, …Link
COVIDaction’s Vaccine Data Co-Lab Open Call for Technical ProposalThe Vaccine Data Co-Lab is a collaboration with governments, civil society organisations, and network partners …Link
COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM) Funding OpportunityA funding opportunity from The Global Fund to “support countries to mitigate the impact of …Link
Leveraging Geospatial Technologies and Data to Strengthen Immunisation ProgrammesA guidance document that “identifies the steps and key considerations for Ministries of Health (MOH) …Download
The Use of Geospatial Data and Technologies in Support of Immunization Microplanning in Myanmar Implementation Report, 2017–2018This report records UNICEF’s work supporting Myanmar in the use of geospatial data and technologies …Download
Health & PlaceAn interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of all aspects of health and health care in which place or location matters., Link
International Journal of Health GeographicsThis journal publishes novel, high quality and internationally significant manuscripts on all aspects of geospatial …, , Link
Geospatial Health (Official journal of the International Society of Geospatial Health)This journal focuses on all aspects of the application of geographical information systems, remote sensing, …, , Link
Myanmar DoPH MOHS – Guidelines for the Geo-Enabling of the Health Information System (HIS)This document contains the guidelines followed by the Department of Public Health – Ministry of …Download
Sharing the same geography: use of a Common Geo-Registry as a central authority for geospatial information core to sustainable developmentWebinar presented at the Virtual United Nations World Data Forum (UNWDF) on October 2020 introducing …Link
UN- GGIM: Future trends in geospatial information management: the five to ten year vision (Third Edition)The third edition of the Future Trends report from the United Nations Committee of Experts …Download
Esri’s COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution ResourcesA resource web page from Esri featuring tools that can help government and healthcare leaders …, Link
Improving Immunisation Coverage and Equity through the Effective Use of Geospatial Technologies: A Landscape Analysis and Theory of ChangeA document describing the potential for geospatial data and technologies to impact immunisation programming through …Download
Improving Immunization Coverage and Reducing Inequities: Use of GIS in Immunization ProgramsFinal report on the Improving Immunization Coverage and Reducing Inequities: Use of GIS in Immunization …, Download
Starter kit – ArcGIS Solution Coronavirus Case DashboardStarter kit guiding new users on how to operationalize the Coronavirus Case Dashboard included in …Download
HIS Geo-enabling GlossaryThis glossary contains terms that are used frequently in Health GeoLab Collaborative (HGLC) documents, not …Link
ArcGIS Enterprise GIS Training Plan for Staff of Ministries of HealthThis document is a tool for Ministries of Health (MOHs) to use to help determine …Download
Introduction to Geospatial Data Management and Technologies for Malaria ProgramsThese are the training materials used during the training workshop on the Introduction to Geospatial …, , , , , , Link
Addressing geographic access barriers to emergency care services: a national ecologic study of hospitals in BrazilThis study aims to analyze the geographic access barriers to emergency care services in Brazil …Download
Impact of geographic accessibility on utilization of the annual health check-ups by income level in Japan: A multilevel analysisThis study aims to reveal whether an income-dependent difference in the impact of geographic accessibility …Download
Common Geo-registry Assessment Tool (Version 3)The 3rd version of the assessment tool developed based on the requirements listed in the …Download
State of the Pacific’s RMNCAH Workforce Report 2019This report looks into the reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) of 15 …, , , , , , , , , , , Download
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 …Download
Best Practices in Innovations in Microplanning for Polio EradicationDocument presenting the best practices particularly in using GIS to improve the quality of microplans …Download
Using geospatial data and analytics to guide reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health programs: Journal Supplement 5A set of documents from the BMJ Global Health Journals on the different uses of …, , Link
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 functionsGuidance describing the operations needed to check, clean, or validate compiled and/or collected data and …Download
DOH GIS/GPS Guidelines and StandardsThis document contains the guidelines and standards followed by the Department of Health of the …Download
Upstream watershed condition predicts rural children’s health across 35 developing countriesThis University of Vermont-led study is the first to calculate how watershed forests improve the …Download
Starter kit – Migration to ArcGIS ProStarter kit helping prepare experienced ArcMap users to be productive right away in using ArcGIS …Download
ENSURE: Geolocating health facility attendees to map malaria in the Philippines and IndonesiaA case study on how the ENSURE project demonstrated the utility of tablet-based approaches to …, Download
Introduction to Geospatial Data Management and Technologies for PHDsThese are the training materials used during the training workshop on the Introduction to Geospatial Data …Link
HIS geo-enabling – Geospatial data management guideline (MOHS, Myanmar)This document has been developed to guide the Ministry of Health and Sports of Myanmar …Download
WHO Malaria Threats MapThis interactive map presents data on the status of malaria vector resistance, P. falciparum gene …Link
Monitor Malaria EpidemicsIn this lesson, you’ll assume the role of a member of the Ministry of Public …Link
DOPH-cEPI Training Workshop (Naypyitaw, 12-16 March 2018)These are the training materials used during the Capacity Building on the Use of Geospatial …Link
Using the Spatial Quality and Anomalies Diagnosis (SQUAD) Tool to Identify and Correct Data Anomalies in Master Facility Lists: Global Operational GuideThis document is a resource for developing an action plan to improve data in an …Download
Health Information System Geo-enabling Process in MalaysiaThis pager describes the process being followed by the Ministry of Health of Malaysia to …Download
Use of GIS Mapping as a Public Health Tool — From Cholera to CancerThis article shows field of medical geographic information systems (Medical GIS) has become extremely useful …Download
Health geography: supporting public health policy and planningInformed decision-making leads to the development of effective public health policy based on evidence. This …Download
Training Seminar: Insights for ArcGIS: Powerful Data Anayltics Made SimpleA recording of the training seminar conducted by Esri on Insights for ArcGIS. In this …Link
Health information system strengthening and malaria elimination in Papua New GuineaThe study demonstrates that using mobile technologies and GIS in the capture and reporting of …Download
Role of GIS in Health Management Information System and Medical Plan: A Case Study of Gangtok area, Sikkim, IndiaThis study shows how GIS is an ideal tool for planning, organizational issues of health …Download
Role of spatial tools in public health policymaking of Bangladesh: opportunities and challengesThis study assessed the current level of map usage and spatial tools for health sector …Download
GIS for UHC Glossary of TermsA glossary of key terms linked to the use of GIS in the Universal Health …Link
Training Seminar: Survey123 for ArcGIS: Collect Field Data with Smart FormsA recording of the training seminar conducted by Esri to help users collect data in …Link
Starter Kit – Esri’s Story MapsStarter kit guiding new users on how to use Esri’s Story Maps online application to …Download
Health GeoLab Collaborative Pool of ExpertiseThe Health GeoLab Collaborative develops and maintains a pool of expertise and skills related to …Link
Esri Health and Human Services Grant ProgramThis grant allows Ministries of Health of eligible countries to freely use selected Esri products …Link
Health GeoLab Collaborative LinkedIn GroupThis is a LinkedIn Group where institutions and individuals sharing the same vision – geo-enabling …Link
GIS for rapid epidemiological mapping and health-care management with special reference to filariasis in IndiaThis paper is about the study carried out to apply GIS technology for rapid epidemiological …Download
Application of GIS technology in public health: successes and challengesThis paper summarizes the common uses of GIS technology in the public health sector, emphasizing …Download
GIS Training Workshop for MOH staffThese are the training materials used during the GIS Training Workshop for MOH staff held …Link
Groupmappers (A crowdsourcing initiative)Groupmappers is a crowdsourcing initiative with the initial goal of mapping communities in selected rural …Link
Story map: Strengthening the management and use of geospatial data and technologies of the National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology, and Entomology (NIMPE) to support the implementation of Circular 54This story map describes the strengthening of NIMPE’s technical capacity through the implemetation of certain …Link
Fight Child Poverty with Demographic AnalysisMore children live in poverty in Detroit, Michigan, than in any other city in the …Link
Investigate Prescribed DrugsIn this exercise from Esri, you’ll assume the role of a Health and Human Services …Link
2017 Health and Human Services GIS Conference ProceedingsThe 2017 Esri Health and Human Services GIS Conference proceedings are a collection of conference …, Link
Malaria surveillance, monitoring & evaluation: a reference manualThis new version of the reference manual contains many reference to the use of geospatial …Download
Use of mobile technology‑based participatory mapping approaches to geolocate health facility attendees for disease surveillance in low resource settingsArticle describing the method used and results obtained in two rural sites in the Philippines …, Download
Strategic Action Plan for Strengthening Health Information 2017-2021Strategic action plan developped by the Ministry of Health and Sports of Myanmar to support …Download
HIS Geo-Enabling ToolkitThe purpose of this Health GeoLab Collaborative toolkit is to support the geo-enablement of the …Download
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 – 2.5.1 Documenting the data using a metadata profileGuidance describing the concept of metadata and providing a template for the documentation of geospatial …Download
Guidance for the management and use of geospatial data and technologies in health: Part 2 – Implementing the geospatial data management cycle: 2.3 Compiling existing data and identifying gapsGuidance describing the process to be followed in order to compile existing data and identify …Download
HIS geo-enabling – Geospatial data management guidelineDocument guiding the Ministry of Health of Cambodia on the standards, practices, and protocols to …Download
Geographic Accessibility to Maternity Care Package (MCP) Accredited Facilities AnalysisThis study analysed how accessible MCP accredited facilities are to NHTS-PR registered beneficiaries (members and …Download
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 …Download
The Signature Domain and Geographic Coordinates: A Standardized Approach for Uniquely Identifying a Health FacilityA list of standardized indicators for health facility surveys is proposed by the Health Facility …Download
An Overview of Spatial Data Protocols for HIV/AIDS Activities: Why and How to Include the “Where” in Your DataThis MEASURE Evaluation guide focuses on data and how to use geography to facilitate linkages …Download
An Overview of Spatial Data Protocols for Family Planning Activities: Why and How to Include the “Where” in Your DataThis MEASURE Evaluation guide focuses on data and how to use geography to facilitate linkages …Download
Using Geospatial Analysis to Inform Decision Making in Targeting Health Facility-Based Programs: A Guidance DocumentThis MEASURE Evaluation guide describes the questions that need to be answered and the data …Download
Geographic Approaches to Global Health: A Self-Directed Mini-CourseThrough this MEASURE Evaluation course, learners will gain an understanding of how to use spatial …Download
GIS Techniques for M&E of HIV/AIDS and Related ProgramsThis MEASURE Evaluation course presents a practical guide for using a geographic information system (GIS) …Download
Geographic Approaches to Global HealthThrough this course, learners will gain an understanding of how to use spatial data to …Link
GIS and Public Health at CDCWebsite dedicated to GIS-related material and resources developed by the US Center for Disease Control …Link
Spatial Data Fundamentals (MEASURE Evaluation training materials)In order to use spatial data effectively, it can be helpful to know: What is …Download
Introduction to Data Linking Using GIS (MEASURE Evaluation training materials)These materials are a good place for public health workers and health information managers to …Download
Story Map: Geo-enabing the Health Information System in CambodiaStory map describing the implementation of the HIS geo-enabling process in Cambodia.Link
Wiki.GIS.com – The GIS EncyclopediaThis repository incorporates contributions from the GIS community for the benefit of GIS professionals, students, …Link
Esri GIS DictionaryDictionary of the most used terms linked to geospatial data management and technologiesLink
Core Geo-registries for Health Information Exchanges Design Workshop (Phnom Penh, 12-13 June 2017)Executive summary of the workshop organized to define the workflows, requirements and rules that any …Download
Investing the Marginal Dollar for Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH): Accessibility to EmOC services in the in Lao People’s Democratic RepublicThis study used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyse physical accessibility to facilities providing EmOC …Download
Investing the Marginal Dollar for Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH): Accessibility to EmOC services in CambodiaThis study used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyse physical accessibility to facilities providing EmOC …Download
UN OOSA Space for Global Health web siteThe UN OOSA Programme on Space Applications assists developing countries in making use of space-based …Link
Report on the United Nations/World Health Organization/Switzerland Conference on Strengthening Space Cooperation for Global Health (Geneva, 23-25 August 2017)Conference was organized jointly by the United Nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the …Download
Executive summary of the DHIS 2 as common geo-registry workshop (16-18 April 2018)The workshop looked at how geography (location, extent, hierarchies and relationships)) and time (changes over …Download
AccessModAccessMod (version 5) is a free and open-source standalone software to model how physically accessible …Link
Thai GIS NetGroup of professionals in Thailand with an interest in GIS and its application in a …Link
Story Map: Geo-enabing the Health Information System in MyanmarStory map describing the implementation of the HIS geo-enabling process in Myanmar.Link
Esri Case Study: Geo-enabling the Health Information System in MyanmarFlyer describing how the Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health and Sports of Myanmar …Download
Myanmar National Health Plan 2017-2021National health plan being implemented by the Ministry of Health and Sports of Myanmar over …Download
Building Capacity for Geo-Enabling Health Information Systems: Supporting Equitable Health Services and Well-Being for AllBrief describing the major outcomes and lessons learned from the first year of activity of …Download
The Geography of Universal Health CoverageBrief describing why geographic information systems are needed to ensure equitable access to quality health …Download
Master Facility List Resource Package: Guidance for countries wanting to strengthen their MFLDocument describing the different elements needed to be considered when building or strengthening a Health …Download
Guidance on the establishment of a common geo-registry for the simultaneous hosting, maintenance, update and sharing of master lists core to public health (Version 2)The 2nd version of the guidance describing the data flow and requirements that any platform …Download
Guidance on the Use of Geospatial Data and Technologies in Immunization ProgramsGuidance providing a non-technical introduction to the role of geospatial data and technologies in immunization …Download
Starter kit – Unlimited Access to Esri’s e-LearningStarter kit guiding new users on how to access Esri’s e-Learning and benefit from all …Download
Starter kit – Survey123 for ArcGISStarter kit guiding new users on how to use Survey123 for ArcGIS to create electronic …Download
Starter kit – ArcMap 10.5 and Associated Extensions (Single use with authorization code)Starter kit guiding new users on how to install and use of ArcMap and associated …Download
Starter kit – Health GeoLab Collaborative ArcGIS Online platformStarter kit guiding new users in their discovery of the Health GeoLab Collaborative (HGLC) ArcGIS …Download
Guidance for the management and use of geospatial data and technologies in health: Part 2.6 Distributing, using, and updating the data: 2.6.1 Creating thematic maps using desktop GIS softwareGuidance describing the components of a good thematic map and the process to be followed …Download
Guidance for the management and use of geospatial data and technologies in health: Part 2.4 Creating geospatial data: 2.4.2 Collecting data in the fieldGuidance describing the steps in collecting data in the field to fill geospatial data gaps …Download
Guidance for the management and use of geospatial data and technologies in health: Part 2.2 Defining the vocabulary, the data set specifications, and the ground referenceGuidance describing the next steps in the geospatial data management cycle: defining the vocabulary to …Download
Guidance for the management and use of geospatial data and technologies in health: Part 2.1 Documenting the process and defining the data needsGuidance describing the first two steps of the geospatial data management cycle: documenting the process …Download
Guidance for the management and use of geospatial data and technologies in health: Part 1 – Introduction to the data-information-knowledge-decision continuum and the geospatial data management cycleGuidance describing the link between the data-information-knowledge-decision continuum and geospatial data management and providing an …Download
Health Information System master plan 2016-2020Master plan being implemented by the Ministry of Health of Cambodia over the 2016-2020 period …Download