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

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.

Source: International Health - March 2, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sedda, L., Tatem, A. J., Morley, D. W., Atkinson, P. M., Wardrop, N. A., Pezzulo, C., Sorichetta, A., Kuleszo, J., Rogers, D. J. Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: research