The tag amenity=health_post has been mainly used in Nepal, with some use in Guinea (West Africa) and northern Ethiopia:
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/UeI Those in Guinea are usually named "Poste de santé de <place>" - so perhaps they are similar to the Poste de Santé in your area? E.g. nodes 4218024825 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4218024825>, 4218025230 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4218025230>, and 4218028928 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4218028928> There is an online article about the Health Post system in Ethiopia: http://www.hhpronline.org/articles/2016/12/17/the-health-extension-program-of-ethiopia "More than 38,000 government-salaried female Health Extension Workers (HEWs) are deployed in the country. 3 Two HEWs are assigned to one health post to serve a population ranging from 3,000 to 5,000 in a village “kebele”. HEWs provide key health services through fixed and outreach bases. They spend half of their working time conducting home visits and outreach activities and the remaining half at their health post providing basic curative, promotive and preventive services." Example: node 977989612 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/977989612> In Nepal, the amenity=health_post is used for "Health Post" and "Sub-Health Post" facilities. This article says: "health assitant, axulliary health worker, assistant nurse midwife and maternal-child health worker are designated to work in PHC-C, HP [Health Post] or SHP [Sub-Health Post] in rural areas but to date there are insufficinet trained health workers available." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723647/pdf/12199_2008_Article_BF02897302.pdf - older article https://www.advancingpartners.org/resources/technical-briefs/nepal-community-based-health-system-model - more recent: "community-based health services provided by the three cadres of community-level service providers (CLSPs): female community health volunteers (FCHVs), auxiliary nurse midwives (ANWs) and auxiliary health workers (AHWs).2 Until recently, two other cadres—village health workers (VHWs) and maternal and child health workers (MCHWs)—operated in Nepal, but were upgraded to AHWs and ANMs. " So these health posts are not staffed by nurses or doctors, they might have an "auxiliary nurse midwife" or "auxiliary health worker" Comparing the 3 countries, all are health facilities at the village or neighborhood level which provide health care via workers who do not have as much formal training. I would agree that most of these workers might be called "community health workers" as a general term, though each country uses somewhat different terminology. – Joseph Eisenberg On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:00 PM Claire Halleux <claire.hall...@hotosm.org> wrote: > Thanks again for the suggestions. > > healthcare=community_health_worker seems a good value choice, as it is > defined on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_health_worker. > community_health_service is more likely to refer to services provided to > the community involving doctors and nurses, which isn't the case in the > cases currently discussed, see > https://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/2015/07/what-are-community-health-services > > For the health posts, healthcare=nurse is better than using nursing. Using > the singular form seems to me more consistent with the other existing > values of healthcare. > >> >> nurse - may mean "nurse office in school", "nurse office in hospital" and >> the intended meaning >> >> @Mateusz, I didn't get if you were suggesting to avoid this value or not. > > By the way, I realized this morning that the value health_post was > documented last month on the wiki for the amenity key, while absent from > the main amenity page. > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dhealth_post. Has anyone > insights or more context about this tag? > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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