[Tagging] Adding values healthcare=dispensary and healthcare=community_care?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

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 claire.halleux at hotosm.org:

> 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 <> joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> > wrote:
>
>> The tag amenity=health_post has been mainly used in Nepal, with some use in Guinea (West Africa) and northern Ethiopia:
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>> https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/UeI
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>> 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>
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>> 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
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>> "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."
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>> Example: node >> 977989612 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/977989612>
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>> In Nepal, the amenity=health_post is used for "Health Post" and "Sub-Health Post" facilities. This article says:
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>> "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
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>> 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. "
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>> So these health posts are not staffed by nurses or doctors, they might have an "auxiliary nurse midwife" or "auxiliary health worker"
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>> 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.
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>> – Joseph Eisenberg
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