Title: Poverty, Energy Use, Air Pollution and Health in Ghana: A Spatial Analysis.
Authors: Arku, Raphael E.,; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.; Harvard University
Year: 2015
Abstract: Some of the major themes that characterize the relationship between the environment and population health in the developing world today include poverty, household access to clean cooking fuel, air pollution, sanitation, and infant/child and maternal health. My dissertation research incorporates some of these themes at the interface of community and household energy in the context of economic development in Ghana. Specifically, my dissertation focuses on features of household energy and poverty in both rural and urban areas, as well as air pollution, and child and maternal health in growing urban areas in what is a data and resource-poor setting of Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA).