Health facilities managed by the public health sector in South Africa

This dataset was clipped from a comprehensive spatial inventory of 98,745 public health facilities provided by government and non-government sources in 50 countries and islands in sub-Saharan Africa, this subset represents the locations of health care facilites in South Africa. The original dataset was a national master health facility list assembled from a variety of government and non-government sources from 50 countries and islands in sub Saharan Africa. The dataset, compromising of 98,745 public health facilities, was generated utilising multiple geocoding methods to provide this comprehensive spatial inventory. This dataset was originally published in a spreadsheet (William Snow, Robert; Maina, Joseph; Ouma, Paul Onyango; Macharia, Peter Mwangi; Alegana, Victor Adagi; Mitto, Benard; et al. (2019): Public health facilities in sub Saharan Africa. figshare. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7725374.v1) with a data descriptor (Maina, J., Ouma, P.O., Macharia, P.M. et al. A spatial database of health facilities managed by the public health sector in sub Saharan Africa. Sci Data 6, 134 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0142-2) and this subset of it has now been republished by SAEON as a shapefile.