Where children are far from a paediatrician

Blocks with many children and few paediatricians.

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What it does

Every year: blocks of your city with many children and the fewest paediatricians within 2 km, ranked, for a children’s clinic group planning its next branch.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Cairo, count who lives around, count the pediatricians and children's hospitals within 2 km of each, work out new fields, sort them by per_doctor and keep the top 20, then show them on a map and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Parents want a doctor close by. The gaps show where a children’s clinic is needed.

Who it is for

Healthcare & pharma. Clinic groups, pharma companies and medical suppliers planning coverage, finding partners and watching their network. Every use case for healthcare & pharma

Best use cases

  • A children’s clinic group
  • A health ministry
  • A paediatric hospital

What each run gives you

  • An email with the list
  • A map of the results

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 180 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 3 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.

The flow, block by block

  1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
  2. My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
  3. People in every block of the cityxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
  4. Paediatricians within 2 kmxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
  5. Children per paediatricianLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
  6. Best 20 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
  7. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
  8. Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.

Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.

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Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.

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