ISBN:
9781793603579
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (279 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
304.6/456
Keywords:
Medical policy-Africa
Abstract:
This book examines life expectancy in Africa in the context of improving public health policy, making use of exploratory spatial data analysis, including spatio-temporal and spatial regression procedures. Adu Frimpong underscores several negative factors that work against progress in African life expectancy, including wide-spread armed conflicts.
Abstract:
Cover -- Life Expectancy in Africa -- Life Expectancy in Africa: Improving Public Health Policy -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 -- The Genesis, the Past, and the Current Situation of Life Expectancy in Africa -- Chapter 2 -- Life Expectancy, Health, Geospatial Analytics, and War/Conflict Theories -- Health Indicators' Framework (Or Model) -- Major Theories -- Institution, Economic Growth, and Development -- The Solow Growth Model -- Life Expectancy in Africa: Relevant Literature Review -- African Political Cycles and Divisions: Relevant Literature Review of Colonial Presence -- Independence Struggles -- Post-Colonial Africa -- Life Expectancy and its Empirical Relationship with Other Variables -- Chapter Summary and Gap Identification -- Chapter 3 -- Methodology and Models Specification of Spatiotemporal and Spatial Regression Analyses -- Overall Design and Methodology -- Background to the Book's Research Area (Africa) -- Population -- Spatial Dependence, LEB, and Conflict/Civil War -- Spatial Modeling: Spatial Dependence and Clustering -- Spatial Autoregressive Model, Spatial Lag Model, and Spatial Error Model -- Variables Used in the Spatiotemporal Analysis -- Reliability and Validity -- Book's Data Analysis -- Chapter 4 -- Spatiotemporal Analysis of Life Expectancy and Conflict-cum-War in Africa -- Addressing the Book's Research Questions and Hypothesis -- Dynamics and Trends Maps of LEB over the Past Five Decades, 1960-2015 -- Empirical Test of Changes in LEB over the Past Five Decades -- Addressing Research Question 1: To What Extent Can Spatiotemporal Analyses Be Used to Comprehend Better Life Expectancy in Africa? -- Identification of Spatial Clusters of LEB in Africa, 1960-2015 -- Spatial Clusters and Identification of Hotspots and Coldspots in LEB in Africa, 1960-2015.
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