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Ghana Health Service Facility Geocodes Guide

The Ghana Health Service, in collaboration with the World Bank and CHAI-Ghana, is initiating a Master Facility Registry and geo-database integrated with DHIMS2 to enhance public health spatial analysis. This involves collecting geocodes for all health facilities in DHIMS2 using a mobile data collection app called Mergin Maps Input. The document outlines the process for capturing geocodes, ensuring GPS accuracy, and synchronizing data to the cloud.

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Ghana Health Service Facility Geocodes Guide

The Ghana Health Service, in collaboration with the World Bank and CHAI-Ghana, is initiating a Master Facility Registry and geo-database integrated with DHIMS2 to enhance public health spatial analysis. This involves collecting geocodes for all health facilities in DHIMS2 using a mobile data collection app called Mergin Maps Input. The document outlines the process for capturing geocodes, ensuring GPS accuracy, and synchronizing data to the cloud.

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GHANA HEALTH SERVICE MASTER FACILITY

LIST & GEOCODES EXERCISE


ORIENTATION & FIELD WORK
BACKGROUND
Spatial analysis can be essential to on-the-ground personnel working to save lives
because it enables them to prepare in advance for a disease and can severely limit the
impact.
Maps are powerful and popular data visualization tools that allow you to see to see
“patterns” in the data and to understand “spatial relationships” of public health.

The DHIMS2 software has a GIS module which is used for the visualization of data in the
form of maps to improve information usage.

The GHS in collaboration with the World bank and CHAI-Ghana is initiating processes
towards building a Master Facility Registry and geo-database integrated with DHIMS2
for the Ghana Health service.
As part of initial steps toward achieving this feat, all regions are to ensure that geocodes
are collected for all health facilities currently in DHIMS2 and those operational yet to be
added in DHIMS2.
QUALITY
OF
CURRENT
GEOCODES
IN DHIMS2
Installing the geocodes data collection app
Opening the project
on your mobile
device (1)
Open Mergin Maps Input on your mobile
Open device

To log in to the Mergin service, you can


select My projects or the green and white
Login icon on the top right username: CHIM_GH,
password: Ghana@2020

Open the Shared with me tab of


Open the Projects page

Search Search for “GHS-MFL-and-Geo-Codes”

Download Download the project


Opening the project
on your mobile
device (2)

Switch to the Home tab and tap the “GHS-MFL-


Open and-Geo-Codes”

show The project should now be shown

Pinch the screen to zoom in on your location


Pinch If you lose sight of your location, use the GPS button
to recentre the map on your position.
GPS accuracy
• Let's try to capture some field data.
• Press the Record button
• You may now see a warning about GPS accuracy
• Mergin Maps Input uses a traffic light system to display GPS status
• Green: OK - GPS accuracy within defined threshold
• Orange: Warning - GPS accuracy outside of defined threshold
• Red: No GPS - there's no GPS signal or the GPS is unavailable
• Cancel recording and open Settings
• Set Accuracy threshold to 5
• You can get an idea of what accuracy your device is reporting by watching the
traffic light change colour as you change the accuracy threshold.
CAPTURING
GEOCODES FOR
Health Facilities
• To record a feature, select Record button
and the pointer changes to a cross-hair.
• By default, the cross-hair centres to your
location (the orange point) on the map.
You can move the map and adjust the
location. To recentre the map to your
location, you can select GPS button.
Once you are happy with the location,
you can select Add point and the form for
your point will appear
• Fill in the form and press Save. You should
see the map with the newly captured
facility
Synchronizing data to
the Cloud

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