5 Healthsites.io: The Global Healthsites Mapping Project
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Fig. 5.1 Reputation based validation process
the absence of research on the cause this situation, one can only assume that authorities at regional and national level lack of resources to carry out the monitoring of
healthcare services. In order to overcome this issue, the Healthsite.io project has
been designed to have a bottom-up approach of the monitoring and data collection.
Indeed, it is OSM community who provides the localization of health facilities and
health workers in the field who provide related attribute information, such as the type
of services available. These two sources of data are consolidated in Healthsite.io and
data quality verified through the LVI. Once data quality is good enough, data are
then sent back to OSM in order to be shared widely through the community of OSM
users.
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Fig. 5.1 Reputation based validation process
the absence of research on the cause this situation, one can only assume that authorities at regional and national level lack of resources to carry out the monitoring of
healthcare services. In order to overcome this issue, the Healthsite.io project has
been designed to have a bottom-up approach of the monitoring and data collection.
Indeed, it is OSM community who provides the localization of health facilities and
health workers in the field who provide related attribute information, such as the type
of services available. These two sources of data are consolidated in Healthsite.io and
data quality verified through the LVI. Once data quality is good enough, data are
then sent back to OSM in order to be shared widely through the community of OSM
users.