Josephineakeji/nigeria-health-facilities-analysis

Analysis of the Nigeria health facilities to it's population in each state. # Mapping Health Facility Access Gaps Across Nigerian States ## Problem Statement Nigeria's health facilities are not evenly distributed across the country relative to population, but there is no simple, accessible way to see which states are underserved, since facility data exists only as an unorganized list of individual records with no population context attached. This project cleans and aggregates Nigeria's national health facility registry, combines it with state-level population data, and calculates facility-to-population ratios to identify which states have the lowest access relative to the number of people they serve, in relation to SDG target 3.8 (access to essential healthcare services) and SDG target 3.d (national health system capacity). ## Project Background Nigeria's health system carries a well documented and widely discussed burden of disease, malaria, maternal and child health challenges, and a growing non-communicable disease load. Far less attention is given to a more basic, structural question underneath all of that: can people actually reach a functioning health facility in the first place?. Health outcomes are shaped not only by disease prevalence but by whether care is physically accessible, and in a country as large and populous as Nigeria, that access is unlikely to be evenly distributed. This project was built to answer that question directly, using Nigeria's own national health facility registry. The registry itself is a raw, unaggregated list of individual facilities with no population context attached. The result is a population-adjusted view of facility access across Nigeria's 36 states and the FCT, built to answer a specific, actionable question: not just which states have the fewest facilities, but which states are underserved once population size is properly accounted for, and where a facility gap would affect the greatest number of people. This connects directly to SDG target 3.8, on access to essential healthcare services, …