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Title Spatial inequalities : health, poverty, and place in Accra, Ghana / John R. Weeks, Allan G. Hill, Justin Stoler, editors
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : illustrations
Series GeoJournal library, 0924-5499 ; v. 110
GeoJournal library ; v. 110.
Contents Introduction -- Introduction to the Accra School: An Overview of Health, Poverty, and Place in Accra / John R. Weeks, Allan G. Hill, Justin Stoler -- Accra's Urban Morphology and Neighborhood Structure. Defining Neighborhood Boundaries for Urban Health Research: A Case Study of Accra, Ghana / Ryan Engstrom, Caetlin Ofiesh, David Rain, Henry Jewell, John R. Weeks -- Neighborhoods of Health: Comparing Boundaries for Measuring Contextual Effects on Health in Accra, Ghana / Marta Jankowska -- Delineation and Classification of Urban Neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana, from Quickbird Imagery: Manual vs. Semi-automated Approaches / Christopher D. Lippitt, Douglas A. Stow, Sory Toure, Milo Vejraska -- Methods for Texture-Based Classification of Urban Fringe Areas from Medium and High Resolution Satellite Imagery / Lasse Møller-Jensen -- Health and Well-Being in Accra's Neighborhoods. Exploring Social Resilience Among Young Migrants in Old Fadama, an Accra Slum / Raymond Asare Tutu -- Researching Urban Slum Health in Nima, a Slum in Accra / Emmanuel Aggrey-Korsah, Joseph Oppong -- What If Neighbors' Neighborhoods Differ? The Influence of Neighborhood Definitions of Health Outcomes in Accra / Alex Zvoleff, Li An, Justin Stoler, John R. Weeks -- Living Arrangements and Fertility: A Case Study in Southern Ghana / Magdalena Benza -- Fertility in Context: Exploring Egocentric Neighborhoods in Accra / John R. Weeks, Justin Stoler, Allan G. Hill, Alex Zvoleff -- Neighborhood Structure: Implications for the Future Provision of Health Services. The Sachet Water Phenomenon in Accra: Socioeconomic, Environmental, and Public Health Implications for Water Security / Justin Stoler -- Healthcare Access in Three Residential Neighborhoods in Accra, Ghana / Godwin Arku, Paul Mkandawire, Isaac Luginaah, Philip Baiden -- Food Security in Accra / Anna Carla Lopez-Carr
Summary This book provides a fresh analysis of the demography, health and well-being of a major African city. It brings a range of disciplinary approaches to bear on the pressing topics of urban poverty, urban health inequalities and urban growth. The approach is primarily spatial and includes the integration of environmental information from satellites and other geospatial sources with social science and health survey data. The authors Ghanaians and outsiders, have worked to understand the urban dynamics in this burgeoning West African metropolis, with an emphasis on urban disparities in health and living standards. Few cities in the global South have been examined from so many different perspectives. Our analysis employs a wide range of GIScience methods, including analysis of remotely sensed imagery and spatial statistical analysis, applied to a wide range of data, including census, survey and health clinic data, all of which are supplemented by field work, including systematic social observation, focus groups, and key informant interviews. This book aims to explain and highlight the mix of methods, and the important findings that have been emerging from this research, with the goal of providing guidance and inspiration for others doing similar work in cities of other developing nations
Analysis Social sciences
Remote sensing
Public health
Urban Ecology
Demography
Human Geography
Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Economic history
Economic history -- Regional disparities
Social conditions
SUBJECT Accra (Ghana) -- Economic conditions
Accra (Ghana) -- Social conditions
Ghana -- Economic conditions -- Regional disparities
Subject Ghana
Ghana -- Accra
Form Electronic book
Author Weeks, John Robert, 1944-
Hill, Allan G.
Stoler, Justin
ISBN 9789400767324
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