{"id":2402,"date":"2022-07-01T10:52:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T08:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2022-07-01T10:55:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T08:55:50","slug":"guenther-isabel-harttgen-kenneth-seiler-johannes-und-utzinger-juerg-an-index-of-access-to-essential-infrastructure-to-identify-where-physical-distancing-is-impossible-nature-communications-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/en\/guenther-isabel-harttgen-kenneth-seiler-johannes-und-utzinger-juerg-an-index-of-access-to-essential-infrastructure-to-identify-where-physical-distancing-is-impossible-nature-communications-13\/","title":{"rendered":"G\u00fcnther, Isabel, Harttgen, Kenneth, Seiler, Johannes und Utzinger, J\u00fcrg. An index of access to essential infrastructure to identify where physical distancing is impossible. Nature Communications<\/em> 13, 3355 (2022). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-022-30812-8."},"content":{"rendered":"
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To identify areas at highest risk of infectious disease transmission in Africa, we develop a physical distancing index (PDI) based on the share of households without access to private toilets, water, space, transportation, and communication technology and weight it with population density. Our results highlight that in addition to improving health systems, countries across Africa, especially in the western part of Africa, need to address the lack of essential domestic infrastructure. Missing infrastructure prevents societies from limiting the spread of communicable diseases by undermining the effectiveness of governmental regulations on physical distancing. We also provide high-resolution risk maps that show which regions are most limited in protecting themselves. We find considerable spatial heterogeneity of the PDI within countries and show that it is highly correlated with detected COVID-19 cases. Governments could pay specific attention to these areas to target limited resources more precisely to prevent disease transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um die Gebiete mit erh\u00f6htem Risiko f\u00fcr die \u00dcbertragung von Infektionskrankheiten in Afrika zu identifizieren, haben wir einen Physical Distancing Index (PDI) basierend auf dem Anteil der Haushalte ohne Zugang zu privaten Toiletten, Wasser, R\u00e4umen im Haushalt, Transport- und Kommunikationstechnologie entwickelt und gewichten ihn mit der Bev\u00f6lkerungsdichte. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass L\u00e4nder in Afrika, insbesondere […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bild5_1.png",1046,1035,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bild5_1-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bild5_1-300x297.png",300,297,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bild5_1-768x760.png",768,760,true],"large":["https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bild5_1-1024x1013.png",812,803,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bild5_1.png",1046,1035,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bild5_1.png",1046,1035,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bild5_1-12x12.png",12,12,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"entwicklungsoekonomischerausschuss","author_link":"https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/en\/author\/entwicklungsoekonomischerausschuss\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Um die Gebiete mit erh\u00f6htem Risiko f\u00fcr die \u00dcbertragung von Infektionskrankheiten in Afrika zu identifizieren, haben wir einen Physical Distancing Index (PDI) basierend auf dem Anteil der Haushalte ohne Zugang zu privaten Toiletten, Wasser, R\u00e4umen im Haushalt, Transport- und Kommunikationstechnologie entwickelt und gewichten ihn mit der Bev\u00f6lkerungsdichte. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass L\u00e4nder in Afrika, insbesondere…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}