Map showing roads, airstrips, police outposts/stations, mining and forest stations in Guyana

Map of Guyana utilizes a colour key to identify the number of locations where malaria microscopy is done; the main malaria hot spots; and the main health facilities.

A study of catchment area and utilization patterns of St. Ann's Bay Hospital in Jamaica

A study of the areas from where a main hospital in Jamaica attracts majority of its admissions was undertaken through three different approaches. Since population figures for small areas/communities included in the catchment/referral zones are not available in a published form, assistance of Statistical Institute of Jamaica which carried out the latest census in 1982 and has a record of the population by small units viz enumeration districts - was obatined for estimating the population of the catchment and referral zones of the hospital. A further examination of the hospital records on a sample basis provides interesting results relating to partterns of the use of the hospital services by teenager girls for obstetric care