Estimating access to health care in Yemen, a complex humanitarian emergency setting: a descriptive applied geospatial analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In conflict settings, data to guide humanitarian and development responses are often scarce. Although geospatial analyses have been used to estimate health-care access in many countries, such techniques have not been widely applied to inform real-time operations in protracted health emergencies. Doing so could provide a more robust approach for identifying and prioritising populations in need, targeting assistance, and assessing impact. We aimed to use geospatial analyses to overcome such data gaps in Yemen, the site of one of the world's worst ongoing humanitarian crises.

Methods

We derived geospatial coordinates, functionality, and service availability data for Yemen health facilities from the Health Resources and Services Availability Monitoring System assessme

SUBMITTER: Garber K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7561303 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature