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SUBMITTER: Steele JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5332562 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Steele Jessica E JE Sundsøy Pål Roe PR Pezzulo Carla C Alegana Victor A VA Bird Tomas J TJ Blumenstock Joshua J Bjelland Johannes J Engø-Monsen Kenth K de Montjoye Yves-Alexandre YA Iqbal Asif M AM Hadiuzzaman Khandakar N KN Lu Xin X Wetter Erik E Tatem Andrew J AJ Bengtsson Linus L
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20170201 127
Poverty is one of the most important determinants of adverse health outcomes globally, a major cause of societal instability and one of the largest causes of lost human potential. Traditional approaches to measuring and targeting poverty rely heavily on census data, which in most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are unavailable or out-of-date. Alternate measures are needed to complement and update estimates between censuses. This study demonstrates how public and private data sources tha ...[more]