Estimating geographic access to healthcare facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa by Degree of Urbanisation.

ABSTRACT: Measuring rates of coverage and spatial access to healthcare services is essential to inform policies for development. These rates tend to reflect the urban-rural divide, typically with urban areas experiencing higher accessibility than rural ones. Especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region experiencing high disease burden amid fast urbanisation and population growth. However, such assessment has been hindered by a lack of updated and comparable geospatial data on urbanisation and health facilities. In this study, we apply the UN-endorsed Degree of Urbanisation (DoU or DEGURBA) method to investigate how geographic access to healthcare facilities varies across the urban-rural continuum in SSA as a whole and in each country, for circa 2020. Results show that geographic access is overal

SUBMITTER: Florio P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10630936 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature