Communications Medicine (Sep 2022)

Differences between gridded population data impact measures of geographic access to healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa

  • Fleur Hierink,
  • Gianluca Boo,
  • Peter M. Macharia,
  • Paul O. Ouma,
  • Pablo Timoner,
  • Marc Levy,
  • Kevin Tschirhart,
  • Stefan Leyk,
  • Nicholas Oliphant,
  • Andrew J. Tatem,
  • Nicolas Ray

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00179-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Hierink et al. examine the impact of commonly used gridded population datasets on measures of geographic accessibility to healthcare facilities in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors report substantial differences in accessibility depending on the dataset used, particularly in sparsely populated areas.