Measuring the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals at a Local Level: The WeGIx Index

Oliveira, Gisela; Vidal, Diogo Guedes; Viterbo, Lilian Monteiro Ferrari; Maia, Rui Leandro

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30306-8_13

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“…Among others, other variables related to health dimensions [16] would refer to: (i) Built environment—availability and use of cultural, recreational, sports, and green infrastructures; (ii) lifestyles—physical activity, leisure occupation, and nutritional intake; (iii) dependencies—alcohol, smoking, and chemical. All these dimensions are recognized [40] to affect health conditions such as obesity, high blood pressure, and metabolic disorders.…”

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“…The methodology adopted to design the composite index SEHVI was the same as previously used to construct another index already published: The WeGIx [40,41]. The procedures to standardize, normalize, and aggregate the variables in a non-weighted aggregation formula for the composite index and the statistical approach to validate both indexes were the same.…”

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Measuring Health Vulnerability: An Interdisciplinary Indicator Applied to Mainland Portugal

Oliveira

Vidal

Ferraz

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Health promotion and inequality reduction are specific goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, which are interconnected with several dimensions of life. This work proposes a composite index SEHVI—socioeconomic health vulnerability index—to address Portuguese population socioeconomic determinants that affect health outcomes. Variables composing SEHVI are aligned with the sustainable development goals considering data and times series availability to enable progress monitoring, and variables adequacy to translate populations’ life conditions affecting health outcomes. Data for 35 variables and three periods were collected from official national databases. All variables are part of one of the groups: Health determinants (social, economic, cultural, and environmental factors) and health outcomes (mortality indicators). Variables were standardized and normalized by “Distance to a reference” method and then aggregated into the SEHVI formula. Several statistical procedures for validation of SEHVI revealed the internal consistency of the index. For all municipalities, SEHVI was calculated and cartographically represented. Results were analyzed by statistical tests and compared for three years and territory typologies. SEHVI differences were found as a function of population density, suggesting inequalities of communities’ life conditions and in vulnerability to health.

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Measuring Health Vulnerability: An Interdisciplinary Indicator Applied to Mainland Portugal

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Vidal

Ferraz

et al. 2019

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“…The procedures chosen to perform the validation of IWHAI were based on studies, namely those of Yueng-Hsiang et al [30], Viterbo et al [42] and Oliveira et al [49]. After the selection of the dimensions and their respective indicators, the analysis of the relationship between variables was performed using IBM ® SPSS ® Statistics for Windows v.25.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA) [50].…”

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Development and Validation of an Interdisciplinary Worker’s Health Approach Instrument (IWHAI)

Viterbo

Dinis

Costa³

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The present study aimed to develop and validate an Interdisciplinary Worker’s Health Approach Instrument (IWHAI). The development stage comprised a group of 10 professionals, including physicians, nurses, nutritionists, dentists and physical educators, as well as a judges’ committee, composed by 19 recognized experts in the area of worker’s health (WH). For the validation of the IWHAI, the Spearman’s correlation coefficient (rs) was calculated, the factor analysis to the instrument was applied, and the Cronbach’s alpha (α) and the Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) were calculated. The IWHAI was structured in five dimensions, integrating 43 health indicators, on a scale of 0–4, totalling 215 sub-indices with closed response coding. The instrument was validated with a Kappa coefficient (KAPPA) (k), with excellent agreement for all attributes, i.e., k = 0.88 for applicability, k = 0.80 for clarity and k = 0.82 for relevance. p > 0.05 results reveal moderate to strong positive correlations between some variables, i.e., pests, vectors and air quality/drinking water quality (rs = 0.69). A total of 14 components of the factor analysis, explaining 62.6% of the data variance, were extracted. α value is considered moderate to high, α = 0.61, the ICC value also being considered moderate to high, with ICC = 0.61. The IWHAI is considered validated, constituting a technological innovation for an interdisciplinary approach in the field of WH, enabling the prevention and integral promotion of health.

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“…It is assumed that the conditioning factors that shape sustainable environment are all interconnected and in accordance with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Herein, the methodology adopted to measure the Environment and Sustainability Indicator Env_WeGIx was developed as part of one project (Maia, Oliveira, Vidal, Pontes, Barreira, Guerreiro & Estrada, 2019;Oliveira, Vidal, Viterbo & Maia, 2020) that aims to measure living conditions at a local level in the Portuguese territory. Since the target area is Portugal (92 212 km²) and its 308 municipalities, official statistics data sources support the WeGIx database, namely from the Portuguese national agencies: INE -the National Statistics Institute (www.ine.pt), PORDATAthe Contemporary Portuguese Database (www.pordata.pt) and APA -the Portuguese Environmental Agency (www.apambiente.pt).…”

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“…The Environment and Sustainability Indicator Env_WeGIx combines the following nine environmental variables (integrated in original WeGIx (Oliveira, Vidal, Viterbo & Maia, 2020)): urban waste; domestic electricity consumption; water supplied and consumed; fuel consumption for road traffic; PM10 emissions (is particulate matter 10 micrometers or less in diameter); PM2.5 emissions (PM2.5 is particulate matter 2.5 micrometers or less in diameter); NOx emissions (nitrogen oxides) and area burnt by fires. The variable Urban Waste has two components depending on waste final destination: (a) Selective Urban Waste collection refers to the recycling of waste duly separated by material type; and (b), Undifferentiated Urban Waste collection refers to the process of urban waste collection placed in the same container and its land disposal as final destination without any differentiation by type of material.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Measuring the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals at a Local Level: The WeGIx Index

Cited by 12 publications

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Measuring Health Vulnerability: An Interdisciplinary Indicator Applied to Mainland Portugal

Measuring Health Vulnerability: An Interdisciplinary Indicator Applied to Mainland Portugal

Development and Validation of an Interdisciplinary Worker’s Health Approach Instrument (IWHAI)

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