Spatiality in Health: The Distribution of Health Conditions Associated with Electronic Waste Processing Activities at Agbogbloshie, Accra

• Published in: Annals of global health Vol. 86; no. 1; p. 31
• Main Authors: Adusei, Abenaa, Arko-Mensah, John, Dzodzomenyo, Mawuli, Stephens, Judith, Amoabeng, Afua, Waldschmidt, Saskia, Löhndorf, Katja, Agbeko, Kwame, Takyi, Sylvia, Kwarteng, Lawrencia, Acquah, Augustine, Botwe, Paul, Tettey, Prudence, Kaifie, Andrea, Felten, Michael, Kraus, Thomas, Küpper, Thomas, Fobil, Julius
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Ubiquity Press 18.03.2020
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Blood pressure; Burns - epidemiology; Cicatrix - epidemiology; Clustering; Creeks & streams; Dismantling; Electronic Waste; First Aid; Food products; Geographic Information Systems; Ghana - epidemiology; Global positioning systems; GPS; Heterogeneity; Humans; Hypertension; Hypertension - epidemiology; Information processing; Injuries; Lacerations - epidemiology; Male; Middle Aged; Occupational Health; Occupational Injuries - epidemiology; Original Research; Prevalence; Questionnaires; Recycling; Scars; Skin - injuries; Skin diseases; Spatial Analysis; Spatial distribution; Waste disposal; Waste Disposal Facilities; Waste recycling; Workers; Workplace; Young Adult; Ghana; United States > US; Kansas City Missouri

A walk through the Agbogbloshie e-waste recycling site shows a marked heterogeneity in the spatial distribution of the different e-waste processing activities, which are likely to drive clustering of health conditions associated with the different activity type in each space. To conduct a spatial as...