ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Planning universal accessibility to public health care in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Abstract
Achieving universal health care coverage-a key target of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal number 3-requires accessibility to health care services for all. Currently, in sub-Saharan Africa, at least one-sixth of the population lives more than 2 h away from a public hospital, and one in eight people is no less than 1 h away from the nearest health center. We combine high-resolution data on the location of different typologies of public health care facilities [J. Maina et al.,
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