HEALTH FACILITIES

Data ID

File name:

health_facilities

File path:

d:\north_central\Health\

File type:

Arcview shapefile

Category:

Health

Description:

Locations of hospitals, clinics, health centres, outreach points

Status:

In progress

Geographical area:

north-central Namibia

Keywords:

health centre

hospital

clinic

outreach

health

Date of last update:

1999/12/01

ID notes:

"Outreach clinics" are not permanent facilities. They provide an outreach service from clinics once a week.

Services provided include immunisations, ante-natal care, family planning and treatment of some outpatients. In

Dec 1999 the dataset has locations for 265 of the 384 outreach clinics.

Location notes:

Data quality and organisation

Positional Accuracy:

100 metres

Vector/Raster:

Vector

Data quality notes:

Some outreach points are missing.

Spatial reference

Projection:

Geodetic

Datum:

WGS84

Spatial reference notes:

Fields

Field name

Field description

Field source/notes

LONGITUDE

Decimal degrees - longitude

LATITUDE

Decimal degrees - latitude

VILLAGE_NA

name of village or clinic

TYPE

e.g. hospital, clinic, health centre or outreach

outreach = where vaccination campaigns are held

CLINIC

clinic to which outreach belongs

TYP_ABB

abbreviation for the type of facility

REGION

region

Source/Distribution

Lineage/Source of Data:

Survey undertaken by Ministry of Health and Social Services in 1994, using GPS. The information was collected on

data sheets, that NNEP compiled into digital format in 1997.

Author of Data Source:

Ministry of Health and Social Services / Northern Namibia Environmental Project

Contact:

Natural Resource Information Service

Online/Offline Address:

Natural Resource Information System (NRIS),

Ministry of Lands, Resettlement & Rehabilitation, P/Bag 5571, Oshakati

Email: nris@africaonline.com.na

Distribution notes:

Unrestricted

05 December 2000

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