Thank you for the detailed answer. Indeed, this amenity=health_post tag is similar to the "poste de santé" in the DRC. It is the exact match of one of the 5 low-range health facility types among the 14 types of health facilities currently documented in the country ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Congo-Kinshasa/Conventions/Sant%C3%A9). The tag description is likely to cover other types of facilities too, it will likely be discussed on the local list next.
Happy to read that community_health_worker value might get consensus. On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 8:30 PM Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
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