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An index of access to essential infrastructure to identify where physical distancing is impossible
To identify areas at highest risk of infectious disease transmission in Africa, we develop a physical distancing index (PDI) based on the share of households without access to private toilets, water, space, transportation, and communication technology and weight it with population density. Our resul...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9198068/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35701421 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30812-8 |
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author | Günther, Isabel Harttgen, Kenneth Seiler, Johannes Utzinger, Jürg |
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description | To identify areas at highest risk of infectious disease transmission in Africa, we develop a physical distancing index (PDI) based on the share of households without access to private toilets, water, space, transportation, and communication technology and weight it with population density. Our results highlight that in addition to improving health systems, countries across Africa, especially in the western part of Africa, need to address the lack of essential domestic infrastructure. Missing infrastructure prevents societies from limiting the spread of communicable diseases by undermining the effectiveness of governmental regulations on physical distancing. We also provide high-resolution risk maps that show which regions are most limited in protecting themselves. We find considerable spatial heterogeneity of the PDI within countries and show that it is highly correlated with detected COVID-19 cases. Governments could pay specific attention to these areas to target limited resources more precisely to prevent disease transmission. |
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spelling | pubmed-91980682022-06-16 An index of access to essential infrastructure to identify where physical distancing is impossible Günther, Isabel Harttgen, Kenneth Seiler, Johannes Utzinger, Jürg Nat Commun Article To identify areas at highest risk of infectious disease transmission in Africa, we develop a physical distancing index (PDI) based on the share of households without access to private toilets, water, space, transportation, and communication technology and weight it with population density. Our results highlight that in addition to improving health systems, countries across Africa, especially in the western part of Africa, need to address the lack of essential domestic infrastructure. Missing infrastructure prevents societies from limiting the spread of communicable diseases by undermining the effectiveness of governmental regulations on physical distancing. We also provide high-resolution risk maps that show which regions are most limited in protecting themselves. We find considerable spatial heterogeneity of the PDI within countries and show that it is highly correlated with detected COVID-19 cases. Governments could pay specific attention to these areas to target limited resources more precisely to prevent disease transmission. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9198068/ /pubmed/35701421 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30812-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Günther, Isabel Harttgen, Kenneth Seiler, Johannes Utzinger, Jürg An index of access to essential infrastructure to identify where physical distancing is impossible |
title | An index of access to essential infrastructure to identify where physical distancing is impossible |
title_full | An index of access to essential infrastructure to identify where physical distancing is impossible |
title_fullStr | An index of access to essential infrastructure to identify where physical distancing is impossible |
title_full_unstemmed | An index of access to essential infrastructure to identify where physical distancing is impossible |
title_short | An index of access to essential infrastructure to identify where physical distancing is impossible |
title_sort | index of access to essential infrastructure to identify where physical distancing is impossible |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9198068/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35701421 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30812-8 |
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