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Healthcare facilities and electricity access in Africa

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An electricity access health facility database in Africa (EHFDB). The EHFDB incorporates (i) Geographic locations of health centres (ii) the estimated electricity access for healthcare facilities, (iii) the estimated power requirements, (iv) the optimised PV and (v) battery size to meet these requirements, and the (vi) costs of the systems to be installed.

Also, the db provides information about health facilities with access or no access to electricity.

Contributing institutes:

European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milan, Italy

Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia

Contributors

Georgia Kakoulaki; Magda Moner

How to cite

Georgia Kakoulaki, Magda Moner-Girona, Giacomo Falchetta, Daniel Weiss, Nigel Taylor (2026): Healthcare facilities and electricity access in Africa. European Commission, Joint Research Centre [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.XWBR7AG PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/7c9e054b-bdbe-46a6-b8d1-b6eda2414a0a

Data access

Health Facilities in Africa/Sub-Saharian Africa
Esri Shape

SHP – shapefile format – is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information system (GIS) software. Esri shapefile is a zip archive that contains at least the shp, shx and dbf files.
Downloadable file

A downloadable file for the dataset.

Use conditions
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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Access conditions
No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

Publications

Publication
Achieving universal electrification of rural healthcare facilities in sub-Saharan Africa with decentralized renewable energy technologies

Spatial coverage

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Contact email
jrc-renewables (at) ec.europa.eu
Update frequency
biennial

The event occurs every two years.

Language(s)
English

English is a member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. It is an official language of almost 60 sovereign states and is now a global lingua franca.It is the third-most-common native language in the world and it is widely learned as a second language.

Data theme(s)
Energy

dataset theme covering the domain of energy, characterised as the quantitative property necessary to perform work on or heat objects, and vital element of living organisms and the operation of human civilisation
Environment

dataset theme covering the domain of environment, defined as the interaction of all living species, climate, weather, and natural resources that impact human survival and economic activity
Health

dataset theme covering the domain of health which includes health conditions, diseases, treatments, healthcare services, and health policies
Population and society

dataset theme covering the domains of population and society, where population refers to the total number of people residing within various geographic levels from cities to the global scale, and society denotes a collective of individuals engaged in continuous social interaction within a common territory, often under the same political and cultural norms

Issued date
2021-04-20
Created date
10 May 2021 12:15
Modified date
16 Nov 2021 17:05
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/7c9e054b-bdbe-46a6-b8d1-b6eda2414a0a
Other identifiers
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