Open Data South Africa Toolkit
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  • How can government manage data for social impact?
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    • Water, sanitation and climate data resources
    • Public finance and governance data resources
    • Company and private investment data resources
    • Healthcare data resources
    • Air quality data resources
    • Education data resources
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    • Notice: Data extracts from NHI Bill
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    • Challenge: Healthy Environment
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  • COVID-19 data sources and dashboards
  • Healthcare services, locations and standards
  • Medicine and material access, pricing and procurement
  • Health and healthcare indicators
  • Medical scheme information
  • Nutrition
  • Communicable and non-communicable diseases
  • Environmental factors
  • Healthcare advice
  • Tools and enablers
  1. Open data resources

Healthcare data resources

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Last updated 2 years ago

Below is a list of healthcare data resources that you can use for your own activities or events. There are useful tools that show information in a visual way for a quick insight, but you can also access underlying data (in some cases) to do analysis and interpret yourself. This is a working list, so if you have any resources that you think should be added please us for now.

COVID-19 data sources and dashboards

Note: The quality of sources or dashboards has not been verified. Please visit the for official data and information.

Mostly local

  • implemented by CSIR, Stats SA and SARS

  • and slightly broader

  • Official provincial updates: e.g. and , , (incl. updates),

  • . Note this by report co-author about the limitations of current COVID data reporting and analysis.

  • by NRF SAEO

  • aggregated by the City Support Programme (CSP)

  • including coordinated by UP Data Science for Social Impact Research Group

  • and by Media Hack Collective and Bhekisisa

  • by Genesis Analytics - and the

  • by International Budget Partnership. "The Asivikelane initiative gives voice to informal settlement residents in South Africa’s major cities who are faced with severe basic service shortages during the COVID-19 crisis"

  • coordinated by UP SA SDG Hub

  • by GCRO

  • by Wits University and iThemba LABS

  • , personal

  • , personal

  • by The Awareness Company

  • , personal

  • Provincial and local media reports: e.g.

  • dashboard by

Mostly international

Healthcare services, locations and standards

  • Location and services of hospitals and clinics

Medicine and material access, pricing and procurement

Health and healthcare indicators

Medical scheme information

Nutrition

Communicable and non-communicable diseases

Environmental factors

Healthcare advice

Tools and enablers

by Our World in Data incl.

by GitHub

and csv

Coronavirus Tweet Ids from

from

s along 100 non-pharmaceutical interventions by Dahlberg

by OECD and GovLab

- tracking public policy adoption and mobility reduction

California:

on Kaggle incl.

by UNDP

on the geographic distribution of COVID-19 cases worldwide

Register of by GovLab

COVID-19 data repository

Open Contracting Partnership:

Guideline:

Guideline:

from the crowd-managed

or via this data and this

see this 2020 project in SA and

via this project also see the of facility info at the Dept of Health

the of public health facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa

and Dept of Health map view of

A Department of Home Affairs list of

website

: includes address, operating hours, services offered and a user rating

Location of medicine dispensing license holders (pharmacies): xxxx [NDoH link broken], can be copied to a spreadsheet with e.g. . There is an extracted version from 2018 .

List of from the Independent Community Pharmacy Association (ICPA) website.

. Select 'Surname', enter 'a', select 'Wildcard' then search to get full list.

starting with 'a' search from the SA Council for Social Service Professions (SACSSP) site, or go directly to the South African Association of Social Workers in Private Practice ().

. Click 'Go' to get the full list

(Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Osteopathy ...) health professions practitioners in South Africa

Other child, physical and mental health support groups and service providers for , , , , . And see the SA Federation for Mental Health .

locations and contacts

is available on the Department of Health Knowledge Hub.

for facility data

: uses Census 2011 and Community Survey 2016 data to show where people are living and what age groups/ education/ income levels. This can be compared to the type and location of healthcare services to see if services match likely demand.

provides point data on health facilities.

is on the tender page under the Master Health Product List tab. Archived 2015 version .

also on the tenders page.

See the for other sources

on TB, HIV, Malaria, Hepatitis medicine

Medicine dispensing [NDoH link broken]. There is an extracted version from 2018 .

Medicine pricing registry and and

Medscheme and

as XLSX files

Latest on site

of over-the-counter (OTC) medicine information, licensed medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers/ distributors, health products and veterinary products.

Ideal Clinic

Health Systems Trust 2018/19 report and data. Also longitudinal and xxxx.

for facilities, services and population

by Stats SA

profile for South Africa

National Department of Health

to track changes in poverty over 10+ years

from Stats SA. See for datasets.

from Stats SA

) South Africa requires practitioner logins to various systems

Nursing education and enrollment statistics and [links not active]

data

South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey () survey

and .

of all conditions covered from PMB page with an and . This includes a list of .

starting with 'a' search

from WHO

information including menus and preparation guidelines

survey on nutrition and NCD prevalence

including access to food, by

information on food composition

for South Africa

for HIV, TB and anti-microbial resistance (AMR). Note: click Guest login to access

annual pdf reports on communicable disease monitoring

on AMR

in pdf reports from the NICD

Access to sanitation and water: E.g. in Limpopo using you can find ward-level on toilet type in Capricorn district from Stats SA 2011 Census. The more recent 2016 Community Survey data shows data at municipality level.

Other service delivery locations: , , and Post Offices () for social grant payments

air quality information system from the Department of Environmental Affairs

and from the Department of Water and Sanitation

: A mobile-friendly health information tool including a clinic finder and advice on health issues.

Support campaign/ community for adolescent girls and young women with links to B-Wise articles.

: An SMS and Whatsapp-based service to access information about pregnancy and child care.

: Maternal and newborn care information for nurses and midwives.

: the Open Data Kit community produces free and open-source software for collecting, managing, and using data in resource-constrained environments.

: is a Free/Libre project for health practitioners, health institutions and governments. It provides the functionality of Electronic Medical Record (EMR), Hospital Management (HMIS) and Health Information System (HIS).

: the Global Healthsites Mapping Project is an initiative to create an online map of every health facility in the world and make the details of each location easily accessible.

Tweet
South Africa Coronavirus portal
National Policy Data Observatory
NICD COVID-19 updates
NDoH updates
SACMC Epidemic Explorer
Western Cape
dashboard
Gauteng
North West
Twitter
Northern Cape
MRC Report on Weekly Deaths in South Africa
thread
COVID-19 Preparedness Indicators
Responses to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19
COVID-19 ZA Dashboard
API
Coronavirus in South Africa
data
Comparing projected number of COVID-19 ICU patients against the number of available beds
case dashboards
Monitoring Service Delivery in South Africa During COVID-19
SA COVID-19 Project: Vulnerable Communities Map
Mapping vulnerability to COVID-19 in Gauteng
COVID-19 South Africa Dashboard
South Africa COVID-19 data and projections
Coronavirus South Africa Data
COVID-19 Awareness South Africa
Covid-19 Dashboard for South Africa
Estimating the Effective Reproduction Number of COVID-19 in South Africa
Eastern Cape
COVID-19 in Africa
@NCoVAfrica
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
data
Open COVID-19 Dataset
Corona Data Scraper
COVID19 Infodemics Observatory
repository
Harvard Dataverse
Africa CDC COVID-19 Updates
Containment measures data
COVID-19 Forecasting project
Database of government actions on COVID-19 in developing countrie
Global Coronavirus COVID-19 Clinical Trial Tracker
Call for Evidence: Use of Open Government Data in COVID-19 Outbreak
COVID-19 Observatory for the Americas
Modeling COVID-19 to Inform State and Local Response
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19)
dataset
The COVID-19 Detect & Protect Challenge
Open source/ data projects on COVID-19
ECDC data
data collaboratives in response to COVID-19
Johns Hopkins
Emergency procurement for COVID-19: Buying fast, smart, and open
Research Data Alliance (RDA) Recommendations and Guidelines on Data Sharing for COVID-19
Evaluating Data Types: A Guide for Decision Makers using Data to Understand the Extent and Spread of COVID-19
Healthsites.io
project's
2012 hospital survey dataset
merging open health facility datasets
readme
National Indicator Data Set (NIDS)
Data Dictionary site.
WHO database
primary health-care facilities and services
health facilities in South Africa
Primary Health Care Facilities and Services
B-Wise clinic finder
in a pdf here
Tabula
here
'Greendoor' pharmacies
List of health practitioners in South Africa
Registered social workers
SAASWIPP
List of chiropractors in South Africa
List of allied
autism
ADHA
down syndrome
epilepsy
child welfare
Mental Health Services Map
National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) laboratory
Standard treatment guidelines and essential medicines list
National Department of Health Data Dictionary
Wazimap
Youth Explorer
Essential medicine master procurement catalogue
here
Tender awards and contracts for pharmaceuticals and other services
WHO Global Price Reporting Mechanism
facilities
here
source site
OpenUp MPR tool
medicine price list
medicine exclusion list
Medicine stock shortages
Stockouts.org
NAPPI codes list
Medikredit
SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) lists
commodities catalogue
District Health Barometer
data at SAEON
map view
Health Systems Trust indicators
South Africa Demographic and Health Survey 2016
World Health Organisation
data dictionary/ meta-data repository
NIDS panel study
Causes of death
Nesstar
Recorded live births
Health Information Systems Program (HISP
annual
time series
Hospital survey 2012
SANHANES
List of medical schemes
medical scheme administrators
Prescribed minimum benefits (PMB) list
Council for Medical Schemes
explanation of cover
ICD-10 codes
chronic diseases
List of accredited brokers/ brokerages
List of managed care organisations
2016 ICD-10 codes
National school nutrition programme (NSNP)
SANHANES
General household survey 2017
children
South African Food Data System (SAFOODS)
FAO food access data
National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) M&E dashboards
NICD GERMS
GLASS country profile for South Africa
Cancer statistics
Wazimap
data
schools
police stations
SAPO & RPA
SAAQIS
Resource Quality Information Services
WQMN
B-Wise Health
She Conquers:
MomConnect
NurseConnect
Open Data Kit (ODK)
GNU Health
Healthsites.io
procurement section of the toolkit