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Poverty, health and satellite-derived vegetation indices: their inter-spatial relationship in West Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous analyses have shown the individual correlations between poverty, health and satellite-derived vegetation indices such as the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). However, generally these analyses did not explore the statistical interconnections between poverty, health outcomes and NDVI.

Methods

In this research aspatial methods (principal component analysis) and spatial models (variography, factorial kriging and cokriging) were applied to investigate the correlations and spatial relationships between intensity of poverty, health (expressed as child mortality and undernutrition), and NDVI for a large area of West Africa.

Results

This research showed that the intensity of poverty (and hence child mortality and nutrition) varies inversely with NDVI. From the spatial point-of-view, similarities in the spatial variation of intensity of poverty and NDVI were found.

Conclusions

These results highlight the utility of satellite-based metrics for poverty models including health and ecological components and, in general for large scale analysis, estimation and optimisation of multidimensional poverty metrics. However, it also stresses the need for further studies on the causes of the association between NDVI, health and poverty. Once these relationships are confirmed and better understood, the presence of this ecological component in poverty metrics has the potential to facilitate the analysis of the impacts of climate change on the rural populations afflicted by poverty and child mortality.

SUBMITTER: Sedda L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4357798 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Poverty, health and satellite-derived vegetation indices: their inter-spatial relationship in West Africa.

Sedda Luigi L Tatem Andrew J AJ Morley David W DW Atkinson Peter M PM Wardrop Nicola A NA Pezzulo Carla C Sorichetta Alessandro A Kuleszo Joanna J Rogers David J DJ

International health 20150301 2

<h4>Background</h4>Previous analyses have shown the individual correlations between poverty, health and satellite-derived vegetation indices such as the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). However, generally these analyses did not explore the statistical interconnections between poverty, health outcomes and NDVI.<h4>Methods</h4>In this research aspatial methods (principal component analysis) and spatial models (variography, factorial kriging and cokriging) were applied to investigate ...[more]

PMID: 25733559

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