Geographic Accessibility to Health Services Training Workshop (Port Vila, 2-5 December 2019)

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

Activity and Description

Slide Presentation

Exercise Data

Reference Materials

Session 1: Welcome & opening, objectives of the training, round of introduction and expectation from participants

Session 2: Introduction to the use of GIS-based approaches to measure physical accessibility to health services

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	T. Tanahashi: Health service coverage and its evaluation
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	World Health Organization, United Nations Population Fund, Mailman School of Public Health. Averting Maternal Death and Disability & United Nations Children’s Fund: Monitoring emergency obstetric care: A handbook
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	WHO: Investing the Marginal Dollar for Maternal and Newborn Health: Geographic Accessibility Analysis for Emergency Obstetric Care services in Cambodia
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Session 3: Introduction to AccessMod and examples of application

AccessMod website

AccessMod YouTube channel

Compilation of works based on AccessMod

Compilation of works citing on AccessMod

Session 4: Installation of QGIS 3.4.5 and AccessMod 5.0

AccessMod website

Session 5: Introduction to AccessMod 5.0 modules

AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial:

Session 6: Data needed to run the different analysis in AccessMod 5.0

AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial:

The Six Primary Dimensions for Data Quality Assessment

Session 7: Quick reminder on QGIS

QGIS Interface and Main functionalities

Session 8: Data for the different analysis over Vanuatu

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

AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial:

Session 10: Running the physical accessibility analysis for the Health centres and Dispensaries

AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial:

Session 11: Exporting and looking at the results of the physical accessibility analysis

AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial:

Session 12: Presenting the results of the physical accessibility analysis in tables, graphs, and maps

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	HGLC Guidance document volume 2.6.1: Creating good thematic maps using desktop GIS software
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Session 13: Preparing the input parameters for the geographic coverage analysis

AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial:

Session 14: Running the geographic coverage analysis for the Health centres and Dispensaries

AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial:

Session 15: Exporting and looking at the results of the geographic coverage analysis

AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial:

Session 16: Running the referral analysis between the Health centres and the nearest Hospital

AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial:

Session 17: Exporting and looking at the results of the referral analysis

AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial:

Session 18: Preparing the input parameters for the scaling up analysis

AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial:

Session 19: Running the scaling up analysis for the Health centres and Dispensaries

AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial:

Session 20: Exporting and looking at the results of the scaling up analysis

AccessMod User Guide and Tutorial:

Session 21: Review of the results generated through the different analysis, additional resources, Q&A

Results of conducted analyses

AccessMod website

AccessMod YouTube channel

AccessMod GitHub

QGIS Reference Materials

Health GeoLab Collaborative website

HGLC Workshop and Training materials

HGLC HIS Geo-enabling Course