A spatial national health facility database for public health sector planning in Kenya in 2008
Open Access
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in International Journal of Health Geographics
- Vol. 8 (1) , 13
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-072x-8-13
Abstract
Efforts to tackle the enormous burden of ill-health in low-income countries are hampered by weak health information infrastructures that do not support appropriate planning and resource allocation. For health information systems to function well, a reliable inventory of health service providers is critical. The spatial referencing of service providers to allow their representation in a geographic information system is vital if the full planning potential of such data is to be realized.Keywords
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