Best practices in availability, management and use of geospatial data to guide reproductive, maternal, child and adolescent health programmes
Best practices in availability, management and use of geospatial data to guide reproductive, maternal, child and adolescent health programmes
The commentary provides a set of considerations and some examples for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) programmes that wish to use geospatial data.
Monitoring RMNCAH data trends or change over time and estimating disease burden remain major challenges due to limited reliable geolocated data sources, inconsistent spatial denominators and technical capacity needs.
Increased availability of spatial data, such as satellite imagery and geolocated survey and facility data, coupled with recent methodological refinements, has created new opportunities for use of geographic information systems to achieve spatial disaggregation of RMNCAH data and highlights subnational monitoring among vulnerable populations.
More refined geospatial analyses can help to close the gap for countries with high maternity-related deaths and suffering.
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Molla, Yordanos B., Nilsen, Kristine, Singh, Kavita, Ruktanonchai, Corrine W., Schmitz, Michelle, Duong, Jennifer, Serbanescu, Florina, Moran, Allisyn C., Matthews, Zoe and Tatem, Andrew
(2019)
Best practices in availability, management and use of geospatial data to guide reproductive, maternal, child and adolescent health programmes.
BMJ Global Health, 4 (5), , [e001406].
(doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001406).
Abstract
The commentary provides a set of considerations and some examples for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) programmes that wish to use geospatial data.
Monitoring RMNCAH data trends or change over time and estimating disease burden remain major challenges due to limited reliable geolocated data sources, inconsistent spatial denominators and technical capacity needs.
Increased availability of spatial data, such as satellite imagery and geolocated survey and facility data, coupled with recent methodological refinements, has created new opportunities for use of geographic information systems to achieve spatial disaggregation of RMNCAH data and highlights subnational monitoring among vulnerable populations.
More refined geospatial analyses can help to close the gap for countries with high maternity-related deaths and suffering.
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Accepted/In Press date: 13 April 2019
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