Improving geographical accessibility modeling for operational use by local health actors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Geographical accessibility to health facilities remains one of the main barriers to access care in rural areas of the developing world. Although methods and tools exist to model geographic accessibility, the lack of basic geographic information prevents their widespread use at the local level for targeted program implementation. The aim of this study was to develop very precise, context-specific estimates of geographic accessibility to care in a rural district of Madagascar to help with the design and implementation of interventions that improve access for remote populations.

Methods

We used a participatory approach to map all the paths, residential areas, buildings and rice fields on OpenStreetMap (OSM). We estimated shortest routes from every household in the Di

SUBMITTER: Ihantamalala FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7339519 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature