The Geographic Accessibility to Health Services Training Workshop was held on 2-5 December 2019 in Port Vila, Vanuatu through the collaboration of the Ministry of Health of Vanuatu and the Health GeoLab Collaborative.
This training was conducted in alignment with the aim of the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Vanuatu to provide patients with equal treatment for equal medical need, irrespective of characteristics such as income, race, and place of residence. With this training, the MOH, for the first time in its history, was able to estimate the levels of physical accessibility and provide evidence on how Vanuatu could optimize its distribution of facilities, in order to achieve the goals outlined in the Vanuatu National Sustainable Development Plan (NSDP).
The objectives of the workshop were to:
- Introduce the concepts and methods behind the use of GIS to measure physical accessibility to health services
- Introduce the participants to the use of AccessMod 5.0
- Practice the different analyses included in AccessMod using the data for Vanuatu
We would like to thank the MOH of Vanuatu for allowing us to share these materials.
Training workshop agenda: Download link
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Session 1: Welcome & opening, objectives of the training, round of introduction and expectation from participants | Download link | |||||||||||
Session 2: Introduction to the use of GIS-based approaches to measure physical accessibility to health services | Download link | |||||||||||
Session 3: Introduction to AccessMod and examples of application | Download link | |||||||||||
Session 4: Installation of QGIS 3.4.5 and AccessMod 5.0 | Download link | |||||||||||
Session 5: Introduction to AccessMod 5.0 modules | Download link |
AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial: |
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Session 6: Data needed to run the different analysis in AccessMod 5.0 | Download link |
AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial:
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Session 7: Quick reminder on QGIS | Download link | |||||||||||
Session 8: Data for the different analysis over Vanuatu | Download link | Exercise data | MOH Vanuatu Role Delineation Policy | |||||||||
Session 9: Importing the data into AccessMod 5.0, creating the merged landcover layer, checking health facilities location and correct for population on barriers | Download link |
AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial: |
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Session 10: Running the physical accessibility analysis for the Health centres and Dispensaries | Download link |
AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial: |
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Session 11: Exporting and looking at the results of the physical accessibility analysis | Download link |
AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial: |
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Session 12: Presenting the results of the physical accessibility analysis in tables, graphs, and maps | Download link | Map templates |
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Session 13: Preparing the input parameters for the geographic coverage analysis | Download link |
AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial: |
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Session 14: Running the geographic coverage analysis for the Health centres and Dispensaries | Download link |
AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial: |
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Session 15: Exporting and looking at the results of the geographic coverage analysis | Download link |
AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial: |
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Session 16: Running the referral analysis between the Health centres and the nearest Hospital | Download link |
AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial: |
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Session 17: Exporting and looking at the results of the referral analysis | Download link |
AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial: |
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Session 18: Preparing the input parameters for the scaling up analysis | Download link |
AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial: |
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Session 19: Running the scaling up analysis for the Health centres and Dispensaries | Download link |
AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial: |
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Session 20: Exporting and looking at the results of the scaling up analysis | Download link |
AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial: |
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Session 21: Review of the results generated through the different analysis, additional resources, Q&A | Download link | Results of conducted analyses |
Health GeoLab Collaborative website |