TY - JOUR
T1 - Fine scale replicable risk mapping in an informal settlement
T2 - A case study of mathare, nairobi
AU - Bempah, Sandra
AU - Odhiambo, Lorriane
AU - Curtis, Andrew
AU - Pandit, Alka
AU - Mofleh, Dania
AU - Ajayakumar, Jayakrishnan
AU - Odhiambo, Linda Atieno
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Meharry Medical College.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Slums and informal settlements continue to pose considerable health challenges, mostly associated with the unavailability of basic amenities and proper waste management. While mapping where risks occur, such as the location of features associated with disease is obviously beneficial, the spatial data required is frequently not available, especially on a continuous basis. In this paper, we employ a robust, cost-effective, and efficient means of monitoring for these types of environments, using the Mathare SIS in Kenya as an illustration. We show how spatial videos can be used to capture microenvironments around homes or other key features such as toilets and water points, to show localized environmental risks such as standing water and mud. We also show the utility of this approach to capture longitudinal change. The objective of this paper is to illustrate how this method can map changes in the spatial variability of health risks in a challenging environment.
AB - Slums and informal settlements continue to pose considerable health challenges, mostly associated with the unavailability of basic amenities and proper waste management. While mapping where risks occur, such as the location of features associated with disease is obviously beneficial, the spatial data required is frequently not available, especially on a continuous basis. In this paper, we employ a robust, cost-effective, and efficient means of monitoring for these types of environments, using the Mathare SIS in Kenya as an illustration. We show how spatial videos can be used to capture microenvironments around homes or other key features such as toilets and water points, to show localized environmental risks such as standing water and mud. We also show the utility of this approach to capture longitudinal change. The objective of this paper is to illustrate how this method can map changes in the spatial variability of health risks in a challenging environment.
KW - Environment monitoring
KW - GIS
KW - Mathare Kenya
KW - Risk mapping
KW - Spatial videos
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U2 - 10.1353/hpu.2021.0028
DO - 10.1353/hpu.2021.0028
M3 - Article
C2 - 33678701
AN - SCOPUS:85102710839
SN - 1049-2089
VL - 32
SP - 354
EP - 372
JO - Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
JF - Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
IS - 1
ER -