HEALTH REGIONS

Data ID

Description:

4 health regions

Chapter:

Additional data

File name:

health_regions

File type:

ArcView shapefile

Geographical area:

Namibia

Keywords:

health

region

Notes on data, analysis and

4 health regions used for Demographic and Health Surveys carried out by the Ministry of Health and Social Services:

compilation:

north-west, north-east, central and south. Created from the regions shapefile (figure 5.17) by aggregating regions into

appropriate groupings. The regions shapefile (5.17) was derived from the constituencies shapefile (figure 5.18).

Data quality and organisation

Positional Accuracy:

1:100 000 scale; 50 - 250 m positional accuracy

Vector/Raster:

Vector

Spatial reference

Projection:

Geographic

Fields

Field name

Field description

NAME	Name of health region