Critical maternity services in African cities need accurate hospital travel times for pregnant women

Banke-Thomas, Aduragbemi ORCID: 0000-0002-4449-0131 and Benova, Lenka (2021) Critical maternity services in African cities need accurate hospital travel times for pregnant women. Africa at LSE (28 Jan 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Minimal attention has been placed on understanding the travel time of pregnant women to health facilities in emergency situations in African cities. Using an innovative approach that painstakingly recreated the journeys of pregnant women in Lagos, we showed that existing computer models do not reflect the realities of women on these journeys. Leveraging tools that allow integration of local and context-specific factors will make travel time estimation more relevant for supporting evidence-based service provision for maternal health.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE Health
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics
Date Deposited:	23 Mar 2021 14:24
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 10:53
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/108671

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