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Urban Health Atlas

A Few Features

of Urban Health Atlas

Finding closest referral facility and best route to take

Assessing coverage of critical emergency services

Population density map and clustering

Filtering to find a particular facility

Background

The unregulated proliferation of the urban private health care sector in LMICs like Bangladesh is a serious policy concern. More rational planning, however, requires systematic methods of documenting and analyzing facility service information, as per WHO’s recommendation for the creation of a Master Facility List. Given growing geographic and socioeconomic inequities in urban health, there is a critical need for tools that facilitate evidence-based planning for effective coverage of urban health services.
A novel ICT tool – the Urban Health Atlas (UHA) – based on a geospatial analysis conducted by icddr,b, has the potential for providing critical facility information to decision makers involved in healthcare policy and planning.

What it is

An interactive web-based visualization tool that shows the location and service details of healthcare service providers in Bangladesh’s major cities.

Why it matters

To improve health service planning, referral and oversight in urban Bangladesh

What it offers

Provides detailed information about all urban health facilities and their location on a live map
Permits filtering to show different kinds of facilities and the services they provide (e.g. NGO satellite clinics, immunization centres, public and private hospitals, diagnostic centres etc.)
Allows users to search for closest or preferred facility by name or type of service required
Gives information on shortest distance between one facility and another to enable rational planning for referral
Visualizes service coverage by population density at the ward level
Helps planners identify gaps or clustering of specific types of services
Enables creation of helpful graphs and tables
Can be linked with other databases to show coverage of waste disposal, public toilets, registration and licensing information, emergency sites for earthquake or epidemic response, and much more…..

City Corporations

Municipality

* Dhaka City Corporation has divided and re-created as Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on 04 December, 2011

Timeline

of Data Collection

2016