Pharmacies near schools for a vaccination drive

What it does

Before a vaccination campaign: pharmacies within 500 m of schools in your city, with how many children live around, ranked, for the campaign team.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Bangkok, find pharmacies in the area, count the schools and primary schools within 500 m of each, count who lives around, work out new fields, sort them by children and keep the top 30, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Vaccination drives reach most children near schools. The best pharmacies are ranked.

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 health ministry
• A vaccine maker
• A pharmacy chain

What each run gives you

• A Google Sheet

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 120 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 9 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. PharmaciesxMap 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.
4. Schools within 500 mxMap 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. Who lives aroundxMap 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).
6. Children aroundLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
7. Best 30 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.
8. Add them to the campaign planApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
9. Email me the resultsAction · 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.

Use it now

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