Putting health facilities on the map: a renewed call to create geolocated, comprehensive, updated, openly licensed dataset of health facilities in sub-Saharan African countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthcare service provision, planning, and management depend on the availability of a geolocated, up-to-date, comprehensive health facility database (HFDB) to adequately meet a population's healthcare needs. HFDBs are an integral component of national health system infrastructure forming the basis of efficient health service delivery, planning, surveillance, and ensuring equitable resource distribution, response to epidemics and outbreaks, as well as for research. Despite the value of HFDBs, their availability remains a challenge in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Many SSA countries face challenges in creating a HFDB; existing facility lists are incomplete, lack geographical coordinates, or contain outdated information on facility designation, service availability, or capacit

SUBMITTER: Macharia PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11978184 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature