Sub-Saharan public health facilities

This dataset is 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. 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 has now been republished by SAEON as a shapefile. The dataset compromises of 98,745 public health facilities generated utilising multiple geocoding methods to provide a comprehensive spatial inventory.