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. 2021 Jul;6(7):e006381.
doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006381.

Defining service catchment areas in low-resource settings

Peter M Macharia  1   2 , Nicolas Ray  3   4 , Emanuele Giorgi  5 , Emelda A Okiro  2   6 , Robert W Snow  2   6
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Defining service catchment areas in low-resource settings

Peter M Macharia et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2021 Jul.
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Keywords: epidemiology; health policy; health services research; health systems; indices of health and disease and standardisation of rates.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
An illustration of several approaches used to define service catchment area, administrative unit (ward or subcounty), straight-line distance (10 km buffer and Thiessen polygon) and travel time (area within 60 min of a hospital). Illustration is based on 622 COVID-19 vaccination posts (https://medical.unon.org/node/169) approved in Kenya. If vaccine allocation was based on one of these catchment areas, there would be mismatches between those who attend a facility and the estimated population denominator in 2021 across methods due to lack of geolocated residential data of care seekers at a particular post. The top right corner shows the illustrated region within Samburu County, Kenya.
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