haasinikellampalli-wq/PHCs-per-10-000-IDPs-in-Nigeria

# Primary Health Clinics per 10,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria In this project, I calculate how many primary health clinics/facilities there are per 10,000 internally displaced people in Nigeria based on Local Government Area (LGA) groupings in Nigeria. Data (in all of these datasets, "admin2" represents LGA level information, and "admin1" refers to states): 1. IDP data: data.humdata.org 2. Administrative Boundaries: data.humdata.org 3. Health Facility Locations: data.humdata.org We can understand the state of healthcare access deprivation by assuming that one PHC has 1 doctor. The average number of doctors per 10,000 population size in Nigeria is 4.1(data.who.int) — every single IDP community in this analysis has a ratio far lower than this. Additionally, WHO general guidelines reccommend 23 doctors per 10,000 population(nicheinternational.org.uk) for adequate healthcare coverage — again, we see how behind IDP communities are on this metric. Given the constraints on economic resources most local governments have, it is likely unfeasible to advocate for scaling the number of PHCs per LGA. The findings of this analysis draw attention to the alarming dearth in healthcare access for IDP communities, and give us strong reason to look at other alternatives — such as training community health workers en masse to be able to provide basic forms of care, and more scalable public health interventions — that can improve healthcare access and health outcomes for these vulnerable populations.