Talk:Tag:healthcare:speciality=vaccination

Needs a feature tag

The key healthcare:speciality=* is meant to describe the specialty of medicine which a physician practices, or sometimes the speciality of another kind of medical practitioner or healthcare provider, e.g. the type of counseling, or psychotherapy, or alternative medicine. healthcare:speciality=vaccination does not really fit here. There are no physicians who specilize in giving vaccinations.

There needs to be a main feature tag with the key amenity=* or healthcare=* if these are going to be mapped as areas. Option is to either expand amenity=clinic to include vaccination centres or create a new tag: see Proposed_features/Tag:healthcare=vaccination_centre. --Jeisenbe (talk) 06:43, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Counter-argument: The wiki for healthcare:speciality=* says: "The speciality of a medical practitioner (e.g. a Doctor) or a medical facility" (emphasis mine). So it refers to the specialty that is offered - independent of the qualification of the practitioners. It's true that the two usually conincide (a gynecologist for gynecology, a physical therapist for physical therapy), but that is not always the case. For example, in Germany a general practitioner (Hausarzt) may have a specialisation (Facharzt) in either General Medicine or Internal Medicine. So I think the value "vaccination" is consistent with the other specialty values. -- Sleske (talk) 23:57, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Note that healthcare=vaccination_centre was just approved with 20 users in support and 0 in opposition (1 abstention). --Jeisenbe (talk) 00:51, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

On second thought, maybe you do have a point. It is true that a) vaccination is not really a medical specialty in the same way as gynecology or internal medicine is, and b) it seems the tag is redundant if vaccination=* is used. So maybe healthcare:speciality=vaccination should be replaced with it? Sleske (talk) 10:13, 21 January 2021 (UTC)