Key:health_person:type

Use of health_person:type=* or office=*

The profession or training/education of a health care related person which works in a health care related facility or who provides any health care related services. The values should primary distinguish the level and kind of education/training.

health_person:type=* can only be used in type=health-relations, otherwise office=* must be used. health_person:type=* must always be used in addition to an health_facility:type=* or health_service:*=yes/no object. The values of health_person:type=* are also valid for the use with office=*.

For health_facility:type=office there are two kind of tagging possibilities for health care related persons, for all other health facilities you have to use health_person:type=*:

1. Simple tagging: Use office=* on the health care related object as a replacement for any relation with health_person:type=*. This has the disadvantage that you have to decide for one of the health persons from the list below (or you own value, if nothing fits).
2. Advanced tagging: Add a type=health-relation with health_person:type=* to the health care related facility or service and omit the office=* tag. The specialties of the parent object are the union of all specialty, counselling and service tags of the type=health-relations on the object, where the specialty, counselling and service tags of the parent object overwrite these of the child relations or are added otherwise.

For the advanced tagging it is recommanded to tag at least the persons, whose specialties have the main influence of the kind of services provided by the health care related object.

If you wonder why Healthcare 2.0 use office=* as a subtag to describe the medical office: as office=* describes any kind of office, why should I reinvent the wheel? There is no context or implicit hirarchy bound to any tags, they only have a meaning/usage and maybe a format for the value.

Usage of the type=health-relation

To represent complex medical object relationships type=health-are used. This is useful to represent e.g. complex hospitals such as the university hospital "Charité" in Berlin/Germany, which consists several, former independent, hospitals spread over whole Berlin. An other example is e.g the university hospital in Greifswald/Germany, where the hospital buildings also spread over the whole city and are not in an single area.

There is no change of the tag meaning if they are used inside a type=health-relation. Health relations should only be used if they are needed, if possible, the node/area should be tagged.

You can use any valid subset of tags from Healthcare 2.0 in a health-relation, but it should always be non-ambiguous clear, to which type of health object the tags in the relation apply and in what medical system the object is located. Tags in sub relations always apply to their parent object, if no new health object type (health_facility:type=*, health_service:*=yes/no health_person:type=* or health_amenity:type=*) is tagged inside the sub relation.

Key	Value	Description
health_person:type/ office	assistant	A person that helps e.g. a physician or therapist with the patients treatment and the administrative office work. If the assistant have undergone some kind of formal training by administrative bodies, you should better use a matching value for this instead.
	craftsman	These person is an assistent, but has been formal trained typically for 2-3 years as a kind of craft (as a combination of in in-company-training and vocational school or only in a vocational school) and got a skilled worker degree. In countries where this also applies for e.g. nurses, midwifes or podologists you should better use these values instead, as they are more specific. This is a fallback category for more uncommon medical "crafts".
	healer	A healer has got some limited formal (regulated by law) medical training, but less than a physician.
	midwife	This, most times female person, has been trained to help women with childbirth.
	nurse	A nurse provides care for people as a service, usually in a health care related facility.
	paramedic	A paramedic is a health care related person, who got at least enough training to do his work, which is to help in the case of emergencies.
	physician	A person who has the full medical training e.g. a country provides for the specialty and medical system. This person first makes a diagnosis of disease and then usually becomes a therapist.
	podologist	A person who does preventive pedicure, e.g. for people with diabetes mellitus, by profession. This is also known as medical foot care or podology in some countries.
	psychologist	A psychologist is a scientist in the field of psychology, which is usually related to (statistical) testing, but can also include treatment techniques such as counselling. Some pschologists do pschotherapy in addition. Usually the psychotherapy training is separate, and can, at least in Germany, also be done e.g. by a physician.
	therapist	This trained person provides treatment services, but does not make an initial diagnosis of the main cause, which causes the treatment e.g. of a disease. But a therapist can make analyses which are related to the kind of therapy which is provided. This is a fallback category mainly for persons, such as physiotherapists or occupational therapists. These are also "craftsman", at least in Germany, but as they are very common they should be separated from the rarer medical "craftsman". Since some time some European countries also added psychotherapy to the curriculum of newer trained psychiatrists. This tag should also be used for the therapist role of these or for persons who have studied psychotherapy for its own. For psychological psychotherapists there should be better used "psychologist", as it more specific describes their scientific background (at least for the use with office=*).
	witchdoctor	A witchdoctor usually got no medical training, but offering medical procedures, which are most times based on some belief.

Examples

Here a some usage examples from Germany. See the relations on the linked objects.

• Physicians trained in internal medicine, working mainly as physician for family medicine (called "Hausarzt" in Germany) in an office.

Office 1: (Physician 1, Physician 2 |3 MFAs(=(paper) office helper and physician assistants): Nurse 1, Nurse 2, Nurse 3 | Carer (of patients): Nurse 4 (There are at least four different types of certified "nurses" in Germany.))
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/11379096304

• Office for diagnostic radiology with five physicians

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6420767792

• Dentists office for children

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3095193833

See Also

• Healthcare 2.0