A survey of quality of life indicators in the Romanian Roma population following the ‘Decade of Roma Inclusion’

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dc.contributor.authorDoherty, Rebecca Powellen
dc.contributor.authorTelionis, Pyrros A.en
dc.contributor.authorMüller-Demary, Danielen
dc.contributor.authorHosszu, Alexandraen
dc.contributor.authorDuminica, Anaen
dc.contributor.authorBertke, Andrea S.en
dc.contributor.authorLewis, Bryan L.en
dc.contributor.authorEubank, Stephen G.en
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-11T15:40:44Zen
dc.date.available2020-11-11T15:40:44Zen
dc.date.issued2019-09-18en
dc.description.abstractBackground: This study explores how the Roma in Romania, the EU’s most concentrated population, are faring in terms of a number of quality of life indicators, including poverty levels, healthcare, education, water, sanitation, and hygiene. It further explores the role of synthetic populations and modelling in identifying at-risk populations and delivering targeted aid. Methods: 135 surveys were conducted across five geographically diverse Romanian communities. Household participants were selected through a comprehensive random walk method. Analyses were conducted on all data using Pandas for Python. Combining land scan data, time-use survey analyses, interview data, and ArcGIS, the resulting synthetic population was analysed via classification and regression tree (CART) analysis to identify hot-spots of need, both ethnically and geographically. Results: These data indicate that the Roma in Romania face significant disparities in education, with Roma students less likely to progress beyond 8 th grade. In addition, the Roma population remains significantly disadvantaged with regard to safe and secure housing, poverty, and healthcare status, particularly in connection to diarrheal disease. In contrast, however, both Roma and non-Roma in rural areas face difficulties regarding full-time employment, sanitation, and water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure. In addition, the use of a synthetic population can generate information about ‘hot spots’ of need, based on geography, ethnicity, and type of aid required. Conclusions: These data demonstrate the challenges that remain to the Roma population in Romania, and also point to the myriad of ways in which all rural Romanians, regardless of ethnicity, are encountering hardship. This study highlights an approach that combines traditional survey data with more wide-reaching geographically based data and CART analysis to determine ‘hot spot’ areas of need in a given population. With the appropriate inputs, this tool can be extrapolated to any population in any country.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work has been partially supported by the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of General Medical Sciences - Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study Grant 5U01GM070694-13, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency - Comprehensive National Incident Management System Contract HDTRA1-11-D-0016-0001, and the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.12546.3en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/100837en
dc.identifier.volume6en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherF1000Researchen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectRomaen
dc.subjectRomaniaen
dc.subjectrural populationsen
dc.subjectWater qualityen
dc.subjecthealthcareen
dc.subjectdevelopmenten
dc.subjectglobal healthen
dc.subjectdecade of Roma inclusionen
dc.titleA survey of quality of life indicators in the Romanian Roma population following the ‘Decade of Roma Inclusion’en
dc.title.serialF1000Researchen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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