Neighborhoods of Health: Comparing Boundaries for Measuring Contextual Effects on Health in Accra, Ghana

GeoJournal Library

Volumn 110, Issue , 2013, Pages 39-56

  Jankowska, Marta ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative Boundary; Health Variable; Modifiable Areal Unit Problem; Neighborhood Boundary; Neighborhood Level

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103882512     PISSN: 09245499     EISSN: 22150072     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6732-4_3     Document Type: Chapter

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