Journal article
Spatial accessibility to basic public health services in South Sudan
- Abstract:
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At independence in 2011, South Sudan's health sector was almost non-existent. The first national health strategic plan aimed to achieve an integrated health facility network that would mean that 70% of the population were within 5 km of a health service provider. Publically available data on functioning and closed health facilities, population distribution, road networks, land use and elevation were used to compute the fraction of the population within 1 hour walking distance of the nearest p...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Wellcome Trust
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Funding agency for:
Snow, R
Grant:
Principal Research Fellow (# 103602
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- PAGEpress Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Geospatial Health Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 510
- Publication date:
- 2017-05-11
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-03-08
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1970-7096
- ISSN:
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1827-1987
- Pmid:
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28555479
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:698053
- UUID:
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uuid:c836a0aa-1a71-4e14-aa35-a87a9eb3a881
- Local pid:
- pubs:698053
- Source identifiers:
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698053
- Deposit date:
- 2018-01-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Macharia et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
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Copyright © 2017 Macharia et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC 4.0) which permits any
noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author(s) and source are credited.
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