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From wealth to health: modelling the distribution of income per capita at the sub-national level using night-time light imagery


Sub-national figures providing information about the wealth of the population are useful in defining the spatial distribution of both economic activity and poverty within any given country. Furthermore, since several health indicators such as life expectancy are highly correlated with household welfare, sub-national figures allow for the estimation of the distribution of these health indicators within countries when direct measurement is difficult.

We have developed methods that utilize spatially distributed information, including night-time light imagery and population to model the distribution of income per capita, as a proxy for wealth, at the country and sub-national level to support the estimation of the distribution of correlated health indicators.

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Source https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1476-072X-4-5
Author(s) Steeve Ebener, Christopher Murray, Ajay Tandon, Christopher C Elvidge
Last Updated March 24, 2021, 15:11 (UTC)
Created October 8, 2020, 18:29 (UTC)
Stable Link https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=zh-TW&as_sdt=0%2C21&q=From+wealth+to+health%3A+modelling+the+distribution+of+income+per+capita+at+the+sub-national+level+using+night-time+light+imagery&btnG=
Date 2005-02-10
Publishing Body International Journal of Health Geographics
Content Type Publications
Primary Category Demographics & Socioeconomics
Sub Category Socioeconomics
Country Name Tanzania