Access to public transportation and health facilities offering long-acting reversible contraceptives among residents of formal and informal settlements in two cities in Kenya

Table 1 Distance from study clusters to matatu stops on ‘direct’ routes and to health facilities offering LARCs by type of settlement (formal or informal) in Nairobi and Kisumu, Kenya

	Nairobi cluster level access to health facilities		Kisumu cluster level access to health facilities
	Informal clusters N = 71	Formal clusters N = 70	Informal clusters N = 37	Formal clusters N = 36
Mean total direct routes^£ within 1 km of cluster Mean total number of stops from direct routes located within 1 km of cluster	7.3 10.9	8.0 15.0*	1.6 2.8	3.3*** 3.6
Median distance to nearest stop on direct route, km (range) % clusters located within 1 km of stop	0.5 (0.1–1.4) 86.0	0.4 (0.1–12.9) 80.0	0.4 (0.1–2.9) 70.3	0.5 (0.1–5.6) 75.0
Median distance to nearest public facility offering LARC, km (range) % clusters beyond 5 km	0.9 (0.04–2.2) 0.0	0.8 (0.1–6.2) 2.9	1.1 (0.3–2.9) 0.0	0.8 (0.1–5.4) 2.8
Median distance to nearest public hospital offering LARC, km (range) % clusters beyond 5 km	3.6 (0.1–7.6) 40.9	2.6 (0.1–15.7) 21.4	1.8 (0.7–5.2) 2.7	1.5 (0.3–7.7) 19.4
Median distance to nearest private^β facility offering LARC, km (range) % clusters beyond 5 km	N/A	N/A	0.6 (0.1–3.2) 0.0	0.6 (0.1–6.0) 5.6
Median distance to nearest private^β hospital offering LARC, km (range) % clusters beyond 5 km	N/A	N/A	1.3 (0.3–3.2) 0.0	0.9 (0.1–7.0) 8.3

*p < 0.1; p*** < 0.01 for comparison between informal and formal settlements
^£Direct routes defined as matatu routes with stops within 1 km of a public health facility offering long-acting reversible contraception (LARC)
^βDistance measures to private facilities are not reported for Nairobi because a census of private facilities was not conducted

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