Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6269
Title: Geographical accessibility to functional emergency obstetric care facilities in urban Nigeria using closer-to-reality travel time estimates: a population-based spatial analysis
Authors: Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas
Kerry L M Wong
Tope Olubodun
Peter M Macharia
Narayanan Sundararajan
Yash Shah
Gautam Prasad
Mansi Kansal
Swapnil Vispute
Tomer Shekel
Olakunmi Ogunyemi
Uchenna Gwacham-Anisiobi
Jia Wang
Ibukun-Oluwa Omolade Abejirinde
Prestige Tatenda Makanga
Ngozi Azodoh
Charles Nzelu
Bosede B Afolabi
Charlotte Stanton
Lenka Beňová
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Department of Community Medicine and Primary Care, Federal Medical Centre Abeokuta, Abeokuta, Ogun, Nigeria
Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
Lagos State Ministry of Health, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, University of Greenwich, London, UK
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Women's College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care, Toronto, ON, Canada
Surveying and Geomatics Department, Midlands State University Faculty of Science and Technology, Gweru, Zimbabwe; Climate and Health Division, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Research, Zimbabwe
Department of Health Planning, Research and Statistics, Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Nigeria
Department of Health Planning, Research and Statistics, Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Nigeria
Maternal and Reproductive Health Research Collective, Lagos, Nigeria; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Google, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
Keywords: Geographical accessibility
emergency obstetric care
Nigeria
Issue Date: May-2024
Publisher: Elsevier
Abstract: Background Better accessibility for emergency obstetric care facilities can substantially reduce maternal and perinatal deaths. However, pregnant women and girls living in urban settings face additional complex challenges travelling to facilities. We aimed to assess the geographical accessibility of the three nearest functional public and private comprehensive emergency obstetric care facilities in the 15 largest Nigerian cities via a novel approach that uses closer-to-reality travel time estimates than traditional model-based approaches. Methods In this population-based spatial analysis, we mapped city boundaries, verified and geocoded functional comprehensive emergency obstetric care facilities, and mapped the population distribution for girls and women aged 15–49 years (ie, of childbearing age). We used the Google Maps Platform's internal Directions Application Programming Interface to derive driving times to public and private facilities. Median travel time and the percentage of women aged 15–49 years able to reach care were summarised for eight traffic scenarios (peak and non-peak hours on weekdays and weekends) by city and within city under different travel time thresholds (≤15 min, ≤30 min, ≤60 min). Findings As of 2022, there were 11·5 million girls and women aged 15–49 years living in the 15 studied cities, and we identified the location and functionality of 2020 comprehensive emergency obstetric care facilities. City-level median travel time to the nearest comprehensive emergency obstetric care facility ranged from 18 min in Maiduguri to 46 min in Kaduna. Median travel time varied by location within a city. The between-ward IQR of median travel time to the nearest public comprehensive emergency obstetric care varied from the narrowest in Maiduguri (10 min) to the widest in Benin City (41 min). Informal settlements and peripheral areas tended to be worse off compared to the inner city. The percentages of girls and women aged 15–49 years within 60 min of their nearest public comprehensive emergency obstetric care ranged from 83% in Aba to 100% in Maiduguri, while the percentage within 30 min ranged from 33% in Aba to over 95% in Ilorin and Maiduguri. During peak traffic times, the median number of public comprehensive emergency obstetric care facilities reachable by women aged 15–49 years under 30 min was zero in eight (53%) of 15 cities. Interpretation Better access to comprehensive emergency obstetric care is needed in Nigerian cities and solutions need to be tailored to context. The innovative approach used in this study provides more context-specific, finer, and policy-relevant evidence to support targeted efforts aimed at improving comprehensive emergency obstetric care geographical accessibility in urban Africa. Funding Google.
URI: https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6269
Appears in Collections:Research Papers

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
Makanga.pdfFull-Text2.38 MBAdobe PDFView/Open
Show full item record

Page view(s)

44
checked on Dec 12, 2024

Download(s)

8
checked on Dec 12, 2024

Google ScholarTM

Check

Altmetric


Items in MSUIR are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.