Now next step is to either get back to other mappers and explain why =dispensary would be likely confusing for others and just map using whatever tags seems best.
Or go through a proposal process https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process if you want. I have seen some edits already, but documenting what was gathered in this discussion by documenting it on OSM Wiki may be also a good idea. May 22, 2020, 01:35 by [email protected]: > 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 "P>> oste 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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