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Approaches to defining health facility catchment areas in sub-Saharan Africa

2022-08-22 health systems and quality improvement Title + abstract only
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The geographical area around a health facility characterizing the population that utilizes some or all of its services - a health facility catchment area (HFCA)-, forms the fundamental basis of estimating reliable population denominator for disease mapping and routine healthcare planning. Consequently, the approaches used to delineate the catchment area have a direct impact on the health of a population. To date, there is no systematic literature review documenting different approaches that have...

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