Health Facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa

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About this dataset

This master list of health facilities was developed from a variety of government and non-government sources from 50 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It uses multiple geocoding methods to provide a comprehensive spatial inventory of 98 745 public health facilities. Each data record represents a health facility and has 8 descriptive variables – Location identifiers including: country, first level administrative division, latitude, longitude and LL source (source of the coordinates). Coordinates are rounded off to four decimal places for uniformity, allowing an accuracy of 5–10 metres in decimal degrees coordinate format. This geocoded master facility list has been made publicly and freely available through both the figshare repository and through the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Programme in Microsoft Excel format.

Documentation

Direct Observational Data/Anecdotal Data The research was conducted by The Population Health Unit, Kenya Medical Research Institute - Wellcome Trust Research Programme. Please refer to the nature article ["A spatial database of health facilities managed by the public health sector in sub Saharan Africa"](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0142-2) for specific information about the methods, data records, technical validation, usage notes and code availability of the data

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