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Local Geographic Variation of Public Services Inequality: Does the Neighborhood Scale Matter?
Author:
Chunzhu Wei, Pablo Francisco Cabrera Barona y Thomas Blaschke
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sandra rochina
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Wei, Chunzhu, Pablo Francisco Cabrera Barona y Thomas Blaschke. 2016. Local Geographic Variation of Public Services Inequality: Does the Neighborhood Scale Matter?. International journal of environmental research and public health, 13(10), 981. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13100981
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5086720/
Summary:
This study aims to explore the effect of the neighborhood scale when estimating public services inequality based on the aggregation of social, environmental, and health-related indicators. Inequality analyses were carried out at three neighborhood scales: the original census blocks and two aggregated neighborhood units generated by the spatial “k”luster analysis by the tree edge removal (SKATER) algorithm and the self-organizing map (SOM) algorithm. Then, we combined a set of health-related public services indicators with the geographically weighted principal components analyses (GWPCA) and the principal components analyses (PCA) to measure the public services inequality across all multi-scale neighborhood units. Finally, a statistical test was applied to evaluate the scale effects in inequality measurements by combining all available field survey data. We chose Quito as the case study area.