Spinfo HealthMap – A Health GIS Application Shankar. K. N, Sathish Selvakumar Spatial Data Pvt. Ltd. 747, Sri Krishna Temple Road, Indiranagar, 1st Stage, Bangalore – 560038 E-Mail: shankar_kn@spinfosoft.com, sathish@spinfosoft.com Phone: 080-5254306, 080-5253708, Tele-Fax – 080-5213125 Objective The objective of the project was to implement a custom GIS application which would be an interactive spatial analysis tool enabling the Health Officer to perform re-districting, re-locating health jurisdictions for effective utilization of health infrastructure. Such an automated facility to generate proposals at the district level and review at the State level were lacking as a system. In a state-wide implementation of Health Information System, sharing health related information with other districts was one of the primary goals, so that consistent and current data is available with the districts. To effectively monitor Disease surveillance at district level. Finally to provide training to all the district health officials on the GIS based health application. This project was implemented for Karnataka Health Systems Development Project (KHSDP), Bangalore, Karnataka. Needs Base maps with current health jurisdiction boundaries were required. To do health jurisdiction, village level information for entire state of Karnataka was required. Custom GIS software development to develop tools for spatial analysis relating to health data was required. Solution The mandate of KHSDP includes the need to improve efficiency in the allocation and use of health resources, and to improve the quality, effectiveness and coverage at the first referral level. Diseases are location specific phenomena, KHSDP recognized the need for Spatial Analysis in Health Monitoring, and Resource Allocation. This required development of health jurisdiction map of Karnataka State, custom GIS software tools for Health applications, finally provide a GIS training to District Officers. Data from district officers were used to delineate the Primary Health Centre (PHC) and Sub-Centre (SC) jurisdictions for the whole state. At present there are anomalies between the prescribed Population level and the actual population served by a Health Centre. Similar problems exist in terms of Personnel allocation, and equipment infrastructure.  Health Jurisdictions –Gadag District Methodology GIS Database creation The project was done in two phases. The phase-1 activity was to create the health jurisdiction for the entire Karnataka State. This exercise was done over a period of 6 months, wherein we created a template and sent to each District Health Office to collect PHC and Sub-centre data. This list was mapped to the village boundary and the entire PHC and Sub-centre jurisdiction was compiled. Along with the template even the PHC and Sub-centre locations were prepared. This was verified and corrected with the help of the District Health officials and the field officers at the district. Contents of the GIS Database The GIS database consists of – Map Data
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