[HTML][HTML] Access to emergency hospital care provided by the public sector in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015: a geocoded inventory and spatial analysis

PO Ouma, J Maina, PN Thuranira… - The Lancet Global …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Timely access to emergency care can substantially reduce mortality.
International benchmarks for access to emergency hospital care have been established to …

Model building and assessment of the impact of covariates for disease prevalence mapping in low-resource settings: to explain and to predict

E Giorgi, C Fronterrè, PM Macharia… - Journal of The …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This paper provides statistical guidance on the development and application of model-
based geostatistical methods for disease prevalence mapping. We illustrate the different …

Spatial and spatio-temporal methods for mapping malaria risk: a systematic review

JN Odhiambo, C Kalinda, PM Macharia, RW Snow… - BMJ global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
Background Approaches in malaria risk mapping continue to advance in scope with the
advent of geostatistical techniques spanning both the spatial and temporal domains. A …

[HTML][HTML] A spatial database of health facilities managed by the public health sector in sub Saharan Africa

J Maina, PO Ouma, PM Macharia, VA Alegana, B Mitto… - Scientific data, 2019 - nature.com
Health facilities form a central component of health systems, providing curative and
preventative services and structured to allow referral through a pyramid of increasingly …

[HTML][HTML] Spatio-temporal analysis of Plasmodium falciparum prevalence to understand the past and chart the future of malaria control in Kenya

PM Macharia, E Giorgi, AM Noor, E Waqo, R Kiptui… - Malaria journal, 2018 - Springer
Background Spatial and temporal malaria risk maps are essential tools to monitor the impact
of control, evaluate priority areas to reorient intervention approaches and investments in …

[HTML][HTML] Geographic accessibility to public and private health facilities in Kenya in 2021: an updated geocoded inventory and spatial analysis

AK Moturi, L Suiyanka, E Mumo, RW Snow… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objectives To achieve universal health coverage, adequate geographic access to quality
healthcare services is vital and should be characterized periodically to support planning …

A vulnerability index for COVID-19: spatial analysis at the subnational level in Kenya

PM Macharia, NK Joseph, EA Okiro - BMJ global health, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
Background Response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic calls for
precision public health reflecting our improved understanding of who is the most vulnerable …

[HTML][HTML] Tracking the introduction and spread of SARS-CoV-2 in coastal Kenya

G Githinji, ZR de Laurent, KS Mohammed… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 is important for understanding both the evolution and
the patterns of local and global transmission. Here, we generated 311 SARS-CoV-2 …

[HTML][HTML] Plasmodium falciparum parasite prevalence in East Africa: Updating data for malaria stratification

VA Alegana, PM Macharia, S Muchiri… - PLOS global public …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The High Burden High Impact (HBHI) strategy for malaria encourages countries to use
multiple sources of available data to define the sub-national vulnerabilities to malaria risk …

[HTML][HTML] Methods of measuring spatial accessibility to health care in Uganda

P Ouma, PM Macharia, E Okiro, V Alegana - Practicing health geography …, 2021 - Springer
Ensuring everyone has access to health care regardless of demographic, geographic and
social economic status is a key component of universal health coverage. In sub-Saharan …