Conclusions of the African Regional GIS Summit (2019): using geographic information systems for public health decision-making

The use of geographic information system (GIS) technologies to improve access to health is gaining momentum in Africa. This has become more pertinent with the increasing penetration of mobile-phone technology and internet use, and calls for innovative strategies to support implementation of the Worl...

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Autores principales: Akpan, Godwin Ubong, Mohammed, Hani Farouk, Touray, Kebba, Kipterer, John, Bello, Isah Mohammed, Ngofa, Reuben, Stein, Andrew, Seaman, Vince, Mkanda, Pascal, Cabore, Joseph
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Meeting Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9206237/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35715765
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12919-022-00233-y
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author Akpan, Godwin Ubong
Mohammed, Hani Farouk
Touray, Kebba
Kipterer, John
Bello, Isah Mohammed
Ngofa, Reuben
Stein, Andrew
Seaman, Vince
Mkanda, Pascal
Cabore, Joseph
author_facet Akpan, Godwin Ubong
Mohammed, Hani Farouk
Touray, Kebba
Kipterer, John
Bello, Isah Mohammed
Ngofa, Reuben
Stein, Andrew
Seaman, Vince
Mkanda, Pascal
Cabore, Joseph
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description The use of geographic information system (GIS) technologies to improve access to health is gaining momentum in Africa. This has become more pertinent with the increasing penetration of mobile-phone technology and internet use, and calls for innovative strategies to support implementation of the World Health Organization Sustainable Development Goals for universal health coverage on the continent. The huge potential benefits of GIS to advance health service delivery in Africa is, however, yet to be fully harnessed due to critical challenges such as proliferation of pilot projects, poor coordination, inadequate preparedness of the health workforce for GIS, lack of interoperability, and inadequate sustainable financing. To discuss these challenges and propose the way forward for rapid, cost-effective, and sustainable deployment of GIS, the African Regional GIS Summit was held in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, on 7–10 October 2019 under the umbrella of the AFRO GIS Centre.
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spelling pubmed-92062372022-06-19 Conclusions of the African Regional GIS Summit (2019): using geographic information systems for public health decision-making Akpan, Godwin Ubong Mohammed, Hani Farouk Touray, Kebba Kipterer, John Bello, Isah Mohammed Ngofa, Reuben Stein, Andrew Seaman, Vince Mkanda, Pascal Cabore, Joseph BMC Proc Meeting Report The use of geographic information system (GIS) technologies to improve access to health is gaining momentum in Africa. This has become more pertinent with the increasing penetration of mobile-phone technology and internet use, and calls for innovative strategies to support implementation of the World Health Organization Sustainable Development Goals for universal health coverage on the continent. The huge potential benefits of GIS to advance health service delivery in Africa is, however, yet to be fully harnessed due to critical challenges such as proliferation of pilot projects, poor coordination, inadequate preparedness of the health workforce for GIS, lack of interoperability, and inadequate sustainable financing. To discuss these challenges and propose the way forward for rapid, cost-effective, and sustainable deployment of GIS, the African Regional GIS Summit was held in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, on 7–10 October 2019 under the umbrella of the AFRO GIS Centre. BioMed Central 2022-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9206237/ /pubmed/35715765 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12919-022-00233-y Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis 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 licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence 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 licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Stein, Andrew
Seaman, Vince
Mkanda, Pascal
Cabore, Joseph
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