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

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,...

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Autores principales: Maina, Joseph, Ouma, Paul O., Macharia, Peter M., Alegana, Victor A., Mitto, Benard, Fall, Ibrahima Socé, Noor, Abdisalan M., Snow, Robert W., Okiro, Emelda A.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6658526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31346183
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0142-2
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author Maina, Joseph
Ouma, Paul O.
Macharia, Peter M.
Alegana, Victor A.
Mitto, Benard
Fall, Ibrahima Socé
Noor, Abdisalan M.
Snow, Robert W.
Okiro, Emelda A.
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Ouma, Paul O.
Macharia, Peter M.
Alegana, Victor A.
Mitto, Benard
Fall, Ibrahima Socé
Noor, Abdisalan M.
Snow, Robert W.
Okiro, Emelda A.
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description 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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spelling pubmed-66585262019-07-29 A spatial database of health facilities managed by the public health sector in sub Saharan Africa Maina, Joseph Ouma, Paul O. Macharia, Peter M. Alegana, Victor A. Mitto, Benard Fall, Ibrahima Socé Noor, Abdisalan M. Snow, Robert W. Okiro, Emelda A. Sci Data Data Descriptor 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. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6658526/ /pubmed/31346183 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0142-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ applies to the metadata files associated with this article.
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Snow, Robert W.
Okiro, Emelda A.
A spatial database of health facilities managed by the public health sector in sub Saharan Africa
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