The "GRID3 DRC Health Facilities - Haut-Katanga, Kasaï, Kasaï-Oriental, Kinshasa, and Lomami Provinces, Version 01" dataset consists of health facility points with names and health catchment area attributes in the provinces of Haut-Katanga, Kasaï, Kasaï-Oriental, Kinshasa, and Lomami in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
To conduct this work, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University engaged with the mandated authorities in the DRC’s Ministry of Health who support data collection and development for vaccination planning. Local healthcare workers were also directly involved in the mapping of the health catchment area boundaries at participatory events coordinated with in-country provincial coordinators and mappers, and in the collection of data in the field from January to July 2021.
This work is part of the GRID3 Mapping for Health in the DRC project. Supported by Gavi through its INFUSE initiative, GRID3 Mapping for Health is a Ministry of Health initiative, delivered in partnership with Flowminder and CIESIN, and in collaboration with WorldPop at the University of Southampton, Kinshasa School of Public Health, UNFPA, UNOPS, and Novel-T. GRID3 Mapping for Health is a continuation of previous work conducted and/or supported in the DRC by the Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development (GRID3) programme.
The dataset consists of four layers: health facility point data and a table with the field descriptions for the layer. The data are available for download in Esri file geodatabase format packaged in zip files.
File name: GRID3_DRC_health_facilities_V01.gdb
The following layers are included in the gdb:
codebook_health_facilities
GRID3_DRC_bcz_5_prov_V01
(The “BCZ” refers to the Bureau central de la Zone de Santé (Central Office of the Health Zone), which constitutes the framework structure for the organization and operation of the health zone. It is located either within the Hôpital Général de Référence (General Reference Hospital), or outside it but inside the health zone. The BCZ is the operational level of the DRC Health System and level of implementation of strategies from the Ministry of Health.)
GRID3_DRC_health_facilities_5_prov_V01
(Government, NGO, or private health facilities that offer vaccination or public health services.)
GRID3_DRC_KN_secondary_health_facilities_1_prov_V01
(The main goal of data collection conducted for the EPI was to identify health facilities (public and private) that provided services for public health and routine immunisations. However, at the demand of the DSNIS, all the facilities, public or private, were also geo-referenced. The healthcare services density is such in Kinshasa (with various facilities for private services, specialists, and faith healers opening and closing quite frequently) that GRID3 created a secondary health facilities layer to be able to differentiate the main public structures from others.)
Extent: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Haut-Katanga, Kasaï, Kasaï-Oriental, Kinshasa, and Lomami provinces.
Dataset citation:
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University and Ministère de la Santé Publique, Hygiène et Prévention, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2022. GRID3 DRC Health Facilities - Haut-Katanga, Kasaï, Kasaï-Oriental, Kinshasa, and Lomami Provinces Version 01. Palisades NY: Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development (GRID3).
https://doi.org/10.7916/0bvp-kp75. Accessed DAY MONTH YEAR.
