Augustine Adu Frimpong

Life Expectancy in Africa

Improving Public Health Policy

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781793603562
• ISBN-10: 1793603561
• Artikelnr.: 57571877

Autorenporträt

By Augustine Adu Frimpong - Foreword by Onyumbe B. Lukongo

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Onyumbe Lukongo Preface Chapter 1: The Genesis, The Past and
The Current Situation of Life Expectancy in Africa Chapter 2: Life
Expectancy, Health, Geo-Patial Analytics and War/Conflict Theories Chapter
3: Methodology and Models Specification of Spatio-Temporal and Spatial
Regression Analyses Chapter 4: Spatio- Temporal Analysis of Life Expectancy
and Conflict-cum-War in Africa Chapter 5: Epilogue: Conclusion, Policy
Recommendations and Implications Appendix I: Spatio-Temporal Analysis Data
Output Appendix II: Some Selected Development Indicators and Data from
World Bank, IMF, and Barrow & Lee, from 1960 to 2015