Abstract: Background: There is geographic variation in accessibility to health care facilities and areas where accessibility to health care facilities is low due to spatial differences in population distribution, transportation infrastructure, and distribution of health care facilities. The aim of this paper was to examine the spatio-physical accessibility to rural healthcare facilities in Nangere Local Government Area of Yobe State. Materials and Methods: The research was conducted using stratified random sampling, with five (5) settlements chosen at random from each of the study political wards. The Data was collected using a structured questionnaire and Global positioning system (GPS). The questionnaires were administered by means of face-to-face method of data collection. The GPS (Garmin 76CSx) was used to record the geographic locations of the health facilities and 146 villages across the eleven (11) political wards. The geospatial data was analyzed in ArcGIS 10.8 version's environment. The questionnaires were sorted, coded, and processed using SPSS 22.0 software.......
Keywords: Nangere, spider diagram, spatial, healthcare
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