Reproductive Health and Wellness

Where do Overweight Women in Ghana Live? Answers from Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis

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Contextual influence on health outcomes is
increasingly becoming an important area of
research. Analytical techniques such as spatial
analysis help explain the variations and
dynamics in health inequalities across different
context and among different population
groups. This paper explores spatial clustering
in body mass index among Ghanaian women
by analysing data from the 2008 Ghana
Demographic and Health Survey using
exploratory spatial data analysis techniques.
Overweight was a more common occurrence
in urban areas than in rural areas. Close to a
quarter of the clusters in Ghana, mostly those
in the southern sector contained women who
were overweight. Women who lived in clusters
where the women were overweight were
more likely to live around other clusters
where the women were also overweight. The
results suggest that the urban environment
could be a potential contributing factor to the
high levels of obesity in urban areas of
Ghana. There is the need for researchers to
include a spatial dimension to obesity
research in Ghana paying particular attention
the urban environment.

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