Conclusion
The first Millennium Development Goal put forward by the World Health Organization was to 'eradicate extreme poverty and hunger' (The World Health Organization (WHO), 2014). The WHO suggests a pathway to achieving these goals through:
1. [building] capacity in using standard growth assessment tools;
2. [supporting] the analysis and interpretation of nutritional survey results;
3. [supporting] the development of nutritional surveillance systems; and
4. [strengthening] and [supporting] the development of nutritional surveillance systems (The
World Health Organization (WHO), 2014).
Understanding the distance decay of health care outcomes and travel time is important in building and creating health care systems that cater to the needs of citizens on a social and geographic level and helps to push countries along the path suggested by the WHO.
Despite the fact that we were unable to conduct regression analyses, our research is still able to provide valuable insights into the nature of the relationship between facility distance and malnutrition prevalence within our study area. We believe our conclusions and lessons learned lend important results and methodology directions to other health and demographic survey systems and could be built off of for future research purposes.
Thus, our methodology and results can help foster discussion and highlight some important inequities in healthcare access, and hopefully, direct further research and areas of attention for Gulu HDSS aiding in national-scale post-conflict recovery.