We would like to support the following user story, ' As a pregnant mother I would like to know if a clinic will cover my health costs through the government health plan or not so that I can select the best clinic for me.'
Perhaps the values for this tag should be localised per country, just as medicare would be an option for the insurance:health tag in the United States. This information would be invaluable in African countries where it could really make a difference for individuals to know where their treatment is covered. ᐧ On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 08:17, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 5) insurance:health > > The proposal suggests values of "no", "public", "private" and "unknown". > > Most of these values are not very helpful in most countries. > > "insurance:health=no" might be useful in the rare instance that a > private clinic or facility does not directly accept any form of health > insurance for payment, however this is rare. > > "insurance:health=public" is not very specific. This might be > sufficient in a country where there is only one public, > government-administered insurance plan. However, here in Indonesia > there are 2 common public insurance plans in my province, so it would > be much more useful to use the name of the insurance as the value, eg > "insurance:health=BPJS" and "insurance:health=Papua_Sehat". In the USA > there is Medicare and various local versions of Medicaid in each > state, in addition to hmo-managed Medicare and Medicaid plans. > > "insurance:health=private" is even less useful. I don't think this tag > is helpful at all, because each private insurance plan is different. > Similarly, "insurance:health=unknown" should not be used, because it > doesn't provide any information. > > This suggests a problem for counties like the USA or Germany where > there are dozens or hundreds of health insurance companies with many > different health plans, each of which may be accepted by a different > list of physicians and health facilities. Would a USA hospital be > tagged with a list of 100 different insurance company and plan > combinations? This would be hard to manage and maintain by most > openstreetmap mappers. > > -Joseph Eisenberg M.D. > > On 6/20/19, Mhairi O'Hara <mhairi.oh...@hotosm.org> wrote: > > Hello Tagging Mailing List, > > > > We would like to bring your attention and comments on the proposal for > the > > staff_count:doctors and staff_count:nurses tags, which helps identify the > > number of doctors and nurses at a given health facility [1][2]. The > > operational_status tag, which has been proposed before and I would like > to > > highlight again, as this is used to document an observation of the > current > > functional status of a mapped feature (i.e. health facility) [3]. The > > health_amenity:type tag is also being proposed, as this indicates what > type > > of speciality medical equipment is available at the health facility [4] > and > > the final tag is insurance:health which describes the type of health > > insurance accepted at a health facility [5]. > > > > Some of these are already in use but have never been formally accepted, > or > > properly described as to how they should be applied, which we would like > to > > try and achieve if possible for the Healthsites.io project. Please take a > > look at the proposal pages on the OSM Wiki, as well as the Global > > Healthsites Mapping Project page [2] which is at the core of the recent > > work focused on creating a health facility data model. We look forward to > > discussing these proposals on the respective Wiki discussion pages. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Mhairi > > > > [1] > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:staff_count:doctors > > [2] > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:staff_count:nurses > > [3] > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:operational_status > > [4] > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:health_amenity:type > > [5] > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:insurance:health > > [6] > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Global_Healthsites_Mapping_Project#Tag_Proposal > > > > > > -- > > *Mhairi O'Hara* > > Project Manager > > mhairi.oh...@hotosm.org > > @mataharimhairi > > > > > > *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* > > *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* > > web <http://hotosm.org/> > > | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> > > | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> > > | donate <http://hotosm.org/donate> > > > -- Kind regards Mark Herringer www.healthsites.io https://medium.com/healthsites-io @sharehealthdata <https://twitter.com/sharehealthdata>
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