Geographic accessibility to public health facilities providing tuberculosis testing services at point-of-care in the upper east region, Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Ghana, limited evidence exists about the geographical accessibility to health facilities providing tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic services to facilitate early diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, we aimed to assess the geographic accessibility to public health facilities providing TB testing services at point-of-care (POC) in the Upper East Region (UER), Ghana.

Methods

We assembled detailed spatial data on all 10 health facilities providing TB testing services at POC, and landscape features influencing journeys. These data were used in a geospatial model to estimate actual distance and travel time from the residential areas of the population to health facilities providing TB testing services. Maps displaying the distance values were produced using ArcGIS Desktop v

SUBMITTER: Kuupiel D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6558903 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature