Appendix 1: Links to Data Sources and Tools for Creating Health Catchment Area Geospatial Databases.

Source

Description

Link

Health Facility Lists

The Global Healthsites mapping project

Healthsites.io is building a baseline of health facility data with OpenStreetMap

https://healthsites.io/map

https://data.humdata.org/organization/healthsites

https://github.com/healthsites/healthsites/wiki/API

Common Geo-Registry (CGR)

Master and non-master list of health facilities obtained through government and commercial partnerships.

http://dsme.community/common-geo-registry/

HeRAMS

Ensures that core information on essential health resources and services is readily available to decision makers at country, regional and global levels.

https://www.who.int/initiatives/herams

Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX)

Master list of health facilities developed government and non-government sources from 50 countries in sub-Saharan Africa

https://data.humdata.org/dataset/health-facilities-in-sub-saharan-africa

GRID3 Health Facility Cleaning

https://github.com/ciesin-geospatial/GRID3_ODP_HF

Boundary Data and Common Operational Datasets

Second Administrative Level Boundaries

This program aims to collect, compile, and manage a homogenous global repository on administrative boundaries and their names from authoritative sources such as the National Geospatial Information Authorities.

https://www.unsalb.org/

GRID3

Boundary data

https://data.humdata.org/organization/grid3

HDX

Database of countries with existing CODs published on OCHA

https://data.humdata.org/cod

geoBoundaries

An open, free, and research-ready database of political administrative boundaries.

https://www.geoboundaries.org/

Population Estimates

WorldPop