Journal article
A vulnerability index for COVID-19: spatial analysis at the subnational level in Kenya
- Abstract:
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Background Response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic calls for precision public health reflecting our improved understanding of who is the most vulnerable and their geographical location. We created three vulnerability indices to identify areas and people who require greater support while elucidating health inequities to inform emergency response in Kenya. Methods Geospatial indicators were assembled to create three vulnerability indices; Social VulnerabilityIndex (SVI), E...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Wellcome Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMJ Global Health Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 8
- Article number:
- e003014
- Publication date:
- 2020-08-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-07-15
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2059-7908
- Pmid:
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32839197
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1177868
- Local pid:
- pubs:1177868
- Deposit date:
- 2021-05-26
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- Copyright holder:
- Macharia et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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