Estimating Access To Health Care In Yemen, A Complex Humanitarian Emergency Setting: A Descriptive A

Researchers used geospatial analyses to estimate access to health care in Yemen, the site of one of the world's worst ongoing humanitarian crises. They developed a geospatial network model to know about the travel time of Yemeni people to their nearest health-care facilities. As per the estimates in 2018, approximately 8·8 million (30·6%) of the overall Yemeni population resided more than 30-min travel time from the nearest completely or partially functional public primary health-care facility and more than 12·1 million (42·4%) lived more than 1 h from the nearest fully or partially functional public hospital, assuming access to motorised transport. A wide difference in access was evident by district and type of health service. For geographical access to health care in Yemen, the most comprehensive estimates are presented herein since the outbreak of the current conflict, and also proof of concept was afforded for how geospatial techniques can be employed to address data gaps and rigorously inform health programming.

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