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Synthea metadata and configuration files for international locations
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Configuration files for New Zealand #9

Closed maciejtarsa closed 3 years ago

maciejtarsa commented 3 years ago

This pull requests contains configuration files for New Zealand. All 16 regions are included. In the demographic file, these are divided into 2133 statistical areas with accurate population totals, genders, ethnicities, age ranges, income and education levels, all obtained from the 2018 national census. The provider files only contains public hospitals (84 of them) obtained from the government website, these are copied over to primary care facilities and urgent care facilities files.

jawalonoski commented 3 years ago

There are still a few issues with patients being unable to find certain types of care, but I debugged the issue, and it looks like those patients are military veterans, who are seeking to go to Veteran's hospitals and can't find any.

If NZ does not have Veteran-specific hospitals, you can just copy the contents of hospitals.csv onto va_facilities.csv and change the contents of the type column to be exactly equal to VA Facility instead of Public Hospital (or whatever value is there). Apologies that this is not documented well.

maciejtarsa commented 3 years ago

Thanks for spotting this. I have now added the file. I cannot find any information about specific facilities for veterans in NZ, so I copied the file as you suggested.

I also removed any reference from the files to 'Area Outside'. There was one area which was outside of any region in geography files and I had one medical centre assigned to that area, but all patients were coming up with 'cannot find provider'. As it is just one location, I decided to remove it.

Other than that, it seems to be working now for all regions.

jawalonoski commented 3 years ago

Thank you for the pull request and the contribution! I tested it locally and found no issues.