Saturday, April 1 / 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM   •   San Fernando

Session 139:
New Methods for Understanding the Distribution of Health and Family Planning Services in Africa

Chair: Allan G. Hill, Harvard University
Discussant: Debbie Fugate, San Diego State University

  1. District-Level Estimates of Home Deliveries in Ghana: Application of Small Area Analysis Using DHS and Census DataFiifi Amoako Johnson, University of Southampton ; Sabu S. Padmadas, University of Southampton ; James Brown, University of Southampton

  2. Density of Family Planning Service Availability: Kernel Density Estimation of Access to Contraceptives in MalawiNathan Heard, Harvard School of Public Health

  3. Spatial Modeling of HIV Prevalence in Cameroon, Kenya, and TanzaniaLivia Montana, ORC Macro ; Melissa Neuman, ORC Macro ; Vinod Mishra, ORC Macro ; Rathavuth Hong, ORC Macro

  4. Calculating Accessibility Ratios in Nicaragua Using Kernel Density EstimationJohn Spencer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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