A spatial database of health facilities managed by the public health sector in sub Saharan Africa

Maina, J. and Ouma, P.O. and Macharia, P.M. and Alegana, V.A. and Mitto, B. and Fall, I.S. and Noor, A.M. and Snow, R.W. and Okiro, E.A. (2019) A spatial database of health facilities managed by the public health sector in sub Saharan Africa. Scientific Data, 6 (1): 134. ISSN 2052-4463

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Abstract

Health facilities form a central component of health systems, providing curative and preventative services and structured to allow referral through a pyramid of increasingly complex service provision. Access to health care is a complex and multidimensional concept, however, in its most narrow sense, it refers to geographic availability. Linking health facilities to populations has been a traditional per capita index of heath care coverage, however, with locations of health facilities and higher resolution population data, Geographic Information Systems allow for a more refined metric of health access, define geographic inequalities in service provision and inform planning. Maximizing the value of spatial heath access requires a complete census of providers and their locations. To-date there has not been a single, geo-referenced and comprehensive public health facility database for sub-Saharan Africa. We have assembled national master health facility lists from a variety of government and non-government sources from 50 countries and islands in sub Saharan Africa and used multiple geocoding methods to provide a comprehensive spatial inventory of 98,745 public health facilities.

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Journal Article
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Scientific Data
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22 Aug 2019 10:45
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Published
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