Using stplanr to find shortest road network distance to a TB treatment clinic from a TB patients’ household.

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stplanr

What did you do?

We estimated the distance from study participants’ (TB patients) households to their TB treatment initiation clinic using two approaches. The first approach was to estimate the distance based on a ‘straight line’ distance Cartesian distance. In the second approach, we used Blantyre urban road network downloaded from OpenStreetMap (OpenStreetMap Foundation) to calculate the shortest road network distance using the stplanr R package

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Clinical, health systems and neighbourhood determinants of tuberculosis case fatality in urban Blantyre, Malawi: a multilevel epidemiological analysis of enhanced surveillance data))

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Public health

Field(s) of application

epidemiology