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

ABSTRACT: 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 ther

SUBMITTER: Maina J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6658526 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature