Villages with no health centre nearby

Villages with no health care within 5 km, for the mobile clinic.

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What it does

Every quarter: the villages in your table with no clinic or health centre within 5 km, with how many people live around each, so the mobile clinic visits them first, emailed and kept in a sheet.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, take your table, count the community health centers, medical clinics and hospitals within 5 km of each, sort them by nearby_count and keep the top 20, count who lives around, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

A mobile clinic has a few days a month. Visiting the villages furthest from care first gives those days the most impact.

Who it is for

Non-profits, charities & humanitarian. NGOs, charities, aid agencies and community groups who need to reach people in need, find partners and report their impact. Every use case for non-profits & humanitarian

Best use cases

  • A health NGO
  • A mobile clinic programme
  • A district health office

What each run gives you

  • A Google Sheet
  • An email

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: 7 blocks.

The flow, block by block

  1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
  2. Our villagesYour data · My dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
  3. Health care within 5 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.
  4. The least served 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.
  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. Add them to the mobile clinic planApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
  7. 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.

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.

How to set it up

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