Modelling geographical accessibility & inequalities to childbirth services in the Grand Nokoué Metropolitan Area, Benin

Access varied by wealth, urbanicity, & travel speed

@itmantwerp.bsky.social

Read our new paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#gischat #geospatial #GeoHealth #HealthEquity

How far is your closest hospital or clinic? Public health researchers explain why Africa needs up-to-date health facility databases.

See our recent article in @africa.theconversation.com

theconversation.com/how-far-is-y...

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Health and place – my journey

www.itg.be/en/health-st...

#GeospatialHealth #GISchat #geosky

Published: 𝐏𝐚𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬, led by @halolemoses.bsky.social

Travel time associated with the severity of anaemia presentation at admission

#gischat #geospatial #GeoHealth #HealthEquity

Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fepi...

When health data go dark: the importance of the DHS Program and imagining its future

We discuss;

Consequences on the tracking of population health outcomes & behaviours.

Implications for national decision-makers & the global health community

Potential paths forward

doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Inequities in #spatial access to childbirth care in Conakry, Guinea. Published in Nature Cities

► Disparities in #geographic access to facilities providing childbirth care

► Driven by skewed spatial distribution of facilities, heavy traffic & socio-economic disadvantage

doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Fully Funded PhD Studentships in Spatial Data Science or Geographic Information Science geods.ac.uk/2025/03/19/f...

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#ResearchHighlight from Peter Macharia, KWTRP

Putting health facilities on the map: a renewed call to create geolocated, comprehensive, updated, openly licensed #dataset of health facilities

Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Publication 👉 bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

𝗣𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗯-𝗦𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮

A (renewed) call to create geolocated, comprehensive, updated, openly licensed dataset of health facilities in SSA.

In #BMCMedicine! bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#GISchat #GeoSky #GeoHealth, @itmantwerp.bsky.social

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗴𝗼 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸: In this commentary, we draw attention to the consequence of suspending USAID funding to the Demographic and Health Surveys
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@jilmolenaar.bsky.social @m-mariealice.bsky.social @alichristou.bsky.social @wongkerry.bsky.social @lenkabenova.bsky.social

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Hooray! Our paper (led by Emily Nightingale) is out.

Inferring the regional distribution of Visceral Leishmaniasis incidence from data at different spatial scales.

w/ @grahammedley.bsky.social and others.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Hi Bluesky. I am a #spatial epidemiologist: #rspatial, #geohealth, #gischat

I work on spatial health metrics for an improved understanding of maternal health disparities in urban SSA.

Eg., #geographic access, marginalisation, coverage & disease prevalence

Let's connect: www.petermacharia.com

Looking forward to the International Conference on Urban Health in Marrakesh (18-21/11/24)

◾I will present ongoing work where we monitor hourly temperature in >30 locations in Lubumbashi city

◾This includes measurement in delivery rooms & within the compound of health facilities

www.icuh2024.org

Curating a health #geography and #spatial epidemiology starter park

go.bsky.app/RPmVXKK

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"This #map represents what I know": the power of putting Lubumbashi’s #maternal healthcare services on the map

"Keeping the maps accurate therefore requires a continuous effort, which is unlikely to happen without local ownership."

www.itg.be/fr/histoires...
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