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

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 infrastructur...

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Main Authors: Peter M. Macharia, Lenka Beňová, Nicolas Ray, Aline Semaan, Moses M. Musau, John Kapoi Kipterer, Mark Herringer, Robert W. Snow, Emelda A. Okiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2025-04-01
Series:BMC Medicine
Subjects:
Health facility database
Sub-Saharan Africa
Data
Healthcare
Health system
Open data sharing
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04023-z
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