Creating a verified health facility dataset for spatial analysis: example from Greater Accra, Ghana

Geocoded health facility data are essential for spatial analyses, yet routine health information systems in many low- and middle-income countries often contain inaccurate, incomplete, inconsistent, or outdated facility coordinates. For Greater Accra, Ghana, we created a geocoded health facility dataset aligned with routine maternal health service data from the District Health Information Management System (DHIMS2). We undertook a desk-based, multi-source geocoding and verification workflow of 602 facilities reporting maternal health services between 2020 and 2024. Candidate coordinates were tr

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