Healthcare data resources

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 Tweet us for now.

COVID-19 data sources and dashboards

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

Mostly local

• National Policy Data Observatory implemented by CSIR, Stats SA and SARS

• NICD COVID-19 updates and slightly broader NDoH updates

• SACMC Epidemic Explorer

• Official provincial updates: e.g. Western Cape and dashboard, Gauteng, North West (incl. Twitter updates), Northern Cape

• MRC Report on Weekly Deaths in South Africa. Note this thread by report co-author about the limitations of current COVID data reporting and analysis.

• COVID-19 Preparedness Indicators by NRF SAEO

• Responses to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 aggregated by the City Support Programme (CSP)

• COVID-19 ZA Dashboard including API coordinated by UP Data Science for Social Impact Research Group

• Coronavirus in South Africa and data by Media Hack Collective and Bhekisisa

• Comparing projected number of COVID-19 ICU patients against the number of available beds by Genesis Analytics - and the case dashboards

• Monitoring Service Delivery in South Africa During COVID-19 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"

• SA COVID-19 Project: Vulnerable Communities Map coordinated by UP SA SDG Hub

• Mapping vulnerability to COVID-19 in Gauteng by GCRO

• COVID-19 South Africa Dashboard by Wits University and iThemba LABS

• South Africa COVID-19 data and projections, personal

• Coronavirus South Africa Data, personal

• COVID-19 Awareness South Africa by The Awareness Company

• Covid-19 Dashboard for South Africa, personal

• Estimating the Effective Reproduction Number of COVID-19 in South Africa

• Provincial and local media reports: e.g. Eastern Cape

• COVID-19 in Africa dashboard by @NCoVAfrica

Mostly international

• Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) by Our World in Data incl. data

• Open COVID-19 Dataset by GitHub

• Corona Data Scraper

• COVID19 Infodemics Observatory and repository csv

• Coronavirus Tweet Ids from Harvard Dataverse

• Africa CDC COVID-19 Updates

• Containment measures data from COVID-19 Forecasting project

• Database of government actions on COVID-19 in developing countries along 100 non-pharmaceutical interventions by Dahlberg

• Global Coronavirus COVID-19 Clinical Trial Tracker

• Call for Evidence: Use of Open Government Data in COVID-19 Outbreak by OECD and GovLab

• COVID-19 Observatory for the Americas - tracking public policy adoption and mobility reduction

• California: Modeling COVID-19 to Inform State and Local Response

• COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19) on Kaggle incl. dataset

• The COVID-19 Detect & Protect Challenge by UNDP

• Open source/ data projects on COVID-19

• ECDC data on the geographic distribution of COVID-19 cases worldwide

• Register of data collaboratives in response to COVID-19 by GovLab

• Johns Hopkins COVID-19 data repository

• Open Contracting Partnership: Emergency procurement for COVID-19: Buying fast, smart, and open

• Guideline: Research Data Alliance (RDA) Recommendations and Guidelines on Data Sharing for COVID-19

• Guideline: Evaluating Data Types: A Guide for Decision Makers using Data to Understand the Extent and Spread of COVID-19

Healthcare services, locations and standards

• Location and services of hospitals and clinics

  • from the crowd-managed Healthsites.io

  • or via this project's data and this 2012 hospital survey dataset

  • see this 2020 project merging open health facility datasets in SA and readme

  • via this project also see the National Indicator Data Set (NIDS) of facility info at the Dept of Health Data Dictionary site.

  • the WHO database of public health facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • and Dept of Health map view of primary health-care facilities and services

• A Department of Home Affairs list of health facilities in South Africa

• Primary Health Care Facilities and Services website

• B-Wise clinic finder: includes address, operating hours, services offered and a user rating

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

• List of 'Greendoor' pharmacies from the Independent Community Pharmacy Association (ICPA) website.

• List of health practitioners in South Africa. Select 'Surname', enter 'a', select 'Wildcard' then search to get full list.

• Registered social workers 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 (SAASWIPP).

• List of chiropractors in South Africa. Click 'Go' to get the full list

• List of allied (Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Osteopathy ...) health professions practitioners in South Africa

• Other child, physical and mental health support groups and service providers for autism, ADHA, down syndrome, epilepsy, child welfare. And see the SA Federation for Mental Health Mental Health Services Map.

• National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) laboratory locations and contacts

• Standard treatment guidelines and essential medicines list is available on the Department of Health Knowledge Hub.

• National Department of Health Data Dictionary for facility data

• Wazimap: 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.

• Youth Explorer provides point data on health facilities.

Medicine and material access, pricing and procurement

• Essential medicine master procurement catalogue is on the tender page under the Master Health Product List tab. Archived 2015 version here.

• Tender awards and contracts for pharmaceuticals and other services also on the tenders page.

• See the procurement section of the toolkit for other sources

• WHO Global Price Reporting Mechanism on TB, HIV, Malaria, Hepatitis medicine

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

• Medicine pricing registry source site and and OpenUp MPR tool

• Medscheme medicine price list and medicine exclusion list

• Medicine stock shortages as XLSX files

• Stockouts.org

• Latest NAPPI codes list on Medikredit site

• SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) lists of over-the-counter (OTC) medicine information, licensed medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers/ distributors, health products and veterinary products.

• Ideal Clinic commodities catalogue

Health and healthcare indicators

• Health Systems Trust District Health Barometer 2018/19 report and data. Also longitudinal data at SAEON and map view xxxx.

• Health Systems Trust indicators for facilities, services and population

• South Africa Demographic and Health Survey 2016 by Stats SA

• World Health Organisation profile for South Africa

• National Department of Health data dictionary/ meta-data repository

• NIDS panel study to track changes in poverty over 10+ years

• Causes of death from Stats SA. See Nesstar for datasets.

• Recorded live births from Stats SA

• Health Information Systems Program (HISP) South Africa requires practitioner logins to various systems

• Nursing education and enrollment statistics annual and time series [links not active]

• Hospital survey 2012 data

• South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES) survey

Medical scheme information

• List of medical schemes and medical scheme administrators.

• Prescribed minimum benefits (PMB) list of all conditions covered from Council for Medical Schemes PMB page with an explanation of cover and ICD-10 codes. This includes a list of chronic diseases.

• List of accredited brokers/ brokerages starting with 'a' search

• List of managed care organisations

• 2016 ICD-10 codes from WHO

Nutrition

• National school nutrition programme (NSNP) information including menus and preparation guidelines

• SANHANES survey on nutrition and NCD prevalence

• General household survey 2017 including access to food, by children

• South African Food Data System (SAFOODS) information on food composition

• FAO food access data for South Africa

Communicable and non-communicable diseases

• National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) M&E dashboards for HIV, TB and anti-microbial resistance (AMR). Note: click Guest login to access

• NICD GERMS annual pdf reports on communicable disease monitoring

• GLASS country profile for South Africa on AMR

• Cancer statistics in pdf reports from the NICD

Environmental factors

• Access to sanitation and water: E.g. in Limpopo using Wazimap you can find ward-level data 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: schools, police stations, and Post Offices (SAPO & RPA) for social grant payments

• SAAQIS air quality information system from the Department of Environmental Affairs

• Resource Quality Information Services and WQMN from the Department of Water and Sanitation

Healthcare advice

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

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

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

• NurseConnect: Maternal and newborn care information for nurses and midwives.

Tools and enablers

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

• GNU Health: 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).

• Healthsites.io: 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.