Ministry of Health and Wellness

MOHW Health GIS

Providing Maps & GIS Services for Public Health Applications in Jamaica

Mapping & Geospatial Intelligence

Disease Mapping & Surveillance

Maps and dashboard of notifiable diseases and key health indicators, supporting surveillance, case review, and operational planning across Jamaica.

Advanced Geospatial Analysis

Spatial clustering, density analysis, temporal trends, and hotspot identification to guide targeted interventions and resource allocation.

Environmental & Risk Intelligence

Assembling environmental and demographic layers, including rainfall, elevation, population, and infrastructure, to support risk assessment and prevention planning.

Featured GIS Resources

Curated external geospatial and public health platforms relevant to Jamaica. Provided for reference only; content is not managed by MOHW.

Environmental health services in Jamaica

Class 1 Disease
Reporting

Supports the reporting of notifiable Class 1 conditions. Maintains in-house tools for visualizing and spatially analyzing Class 1 notifications.

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Environmental Monitoring GIS

Supports GIS mobile field tools, interactive maps, and dashboards for tracking permits, inspections, water-quality sampling, and vector-control outcomes. Maps and dashboard enable users to locate facilities, identify hotspots, prioritize inspections, and monitor compliance trends across parishes and health regions.

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Data Integration

The GIS Unit ensures that health records across APIs, Electronic Health Records, and shared health platforms maintain strong unique and geographic identifiers to support secure linkage, interoperability, and enterprise mapping.

Secure Data Exchange

Collaborates with IT professionals to implement secure, token-based APIs that standardize record identifiers across laboratory and case investigation systems for accurate linkage and mapping.

Electronic Health Records (ERHs)

Works to ensure that electronic health records include validated, geocoded locations and facility IDs so that cases align to the correct jurisdiction and can be mapped quickly.

Shared Health Records Platform (SHROP)

Partners with IT professionals to make health records location-aware, so SHROP can map outbreaks, flag clusters, and dispatch investigations where they are needed.