Assignment name: Electronic mapping of health and education facilities of Kyzylorda oblast of Kazakhstan |
Value of the contract: US $ 309,524 |
Country: Location within country: Kyzylorda oblast |
Duration of the assignment: 10 month |
Name of Client: Akimat of Kyzylorda oblast | Total No of staff-months of the assignment: 35 |
Address: | Value of the services provided under the contract: US$ 309,524 |
Start date: March 2007 Completion date: December 2007 |
No of professional staff-months provided by associated Consultants: none |
Name of associated Consultants, if any: none |
Staff involved in the project: Project Director: Akkumis Salkhanova Coordinator: Talgat Sultanov Medical Consultant: Dana Sharman IT Manager: Igor Ivanov Fieldwork Coordinator: Alexander Korotkov |
Narrative description of the project: In Kyzyl-Orda oblast of the Academy of Preventive Medicine has developed a comprehensive health map by integrating GIS information and statistical data on all healthcare facilities (census of healthcare facilities). Such approach provides important tools for regional healthcare administrators, enabling them to better analyze spatial relationships between different factors affecting health of populations residing in the region, to determine the needs for additional resources and to identify challenges and barriers affecting implementation of healthcare programs. |
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Description of actual services provided within the assignment: Development of a strategy and concept design for healthmapping of a geographic and administrative region: working with the local government on benchmarks and parameters for the data collection Development of methodology for healthmapping: selection of electronic platform (MapInfo, GoogleEarth, ArcView), designing survey instruments (questionnaire) for collection of health, demographic, economic and other types of data; designing a system for integration of data with geographic coordinates Organizing fieldwork for data collection at healthcare facilities, schools and other facilities; establishing a database for integration with geographic coordinates Developing 3-d images of healthcare facilities and integration of 3-d objects into the health maps Design methodology for analysis of statistical, epidemiology data, information on staffing, availability of medical equipment, clinical guidelines, textbooks and computers. Integration of such data into health maps. Training healthcare administrators and local staff how to use health maps and analyze statistical and epidemiological data in order to effectively plan and administer healthcare resources |