Overview
- Provides an unique analyses of spatial inequalities in health and well-being in urban West Africa
- Illustrates novel analytical approaches to health and well-being
- Includes cutting edge applications of remote sensing analyses to urban public health
Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 110)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Accra’s Urban Morphology and Neighborhood Structure
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Accra’s Urban Morphology and Neighborhood Structure
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Health and Well-Being in Accra’s Neighborhoods
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Health and Well-Being in Accra’s Neighborhoods
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Neighborhood Structure: Implications for the Future Provision of Health Services
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Keywords
- Analysis of remotely sensed imagery
- Burgeoning West African Metropolis
- Census, survey and health clinic data
- Cities as drivers of new economic growth
- Family-building and reproductive health
- Health and well-being
- Living arrangements and fertility
- Medium and high resolution satellite imagery
- Near replacement fertility
- Poorer urban districts
- Quickbird imagery
- Rapidly expanding urban centers
- Spatial statistical analysis
- Urban disparities in health and well-being
- Urban growth
- Urban health research
- Urban morphology and neighborhood structure
- Urban slum health
- Welfare and productivity of urban inhabitants
- remote sensing/photogrammetry
About this book
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 socialobservation, 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.
Reviews
“Spatial Inequalities is a collection of papers emanating from a series of integrated studies examining demographic, health, and wellbeing outcomes in the city of Accra, Ghana. … I enjoyed the book as a whole and especially as a vehicle to help better understand the interplay of health, poverty, and place in Accra, but for this reviewer a notable strength of the book was the recurring focus on conceptual, methodological, and analytical issues.” (Stephen A. Matthews, Spatial Demography, Vol. 3, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spatial Inequalities
Book Subtitle: Health, Poverty, and Place in Accra, Ghana
Editors: John R. Weeks, Allan G. Hill, Justin Stoler
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6732-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6731-7Published: 01 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9647-8Published: 16 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6732-4Published: 13 June 2013
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 219
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Public Health, Demography, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Urban Ecology