The study area was divided into 107 geopolitical clusters, each resembling a unit to be targeted in a public health program.
Other clustering definitions that use geopolitical boundaries had higher average clustering percentages when the same 3-year window periods were used (national-level, 77.3%; state-level, 57.1%; county-level, 38.7%).
The proportion of cases representing recent TB transmission varied considerably by cluster definitions based on geopolitical borders.
As well as that, about a million people have been displaced by the fighting, so the situation's messy both in a geopolitical sense and in terms of scud missiles, RPGs and cluster bombs making bits of human fly around everywhere.
The study is a cluster randomised trial involving 24 Village Development Committees [standard rural geopolitical units] of Makwanpur District, south-central Nepal.
Briefly, 24 cluster units comprising village development committee areas (VDCs) – existing geopolitical units of population about 7000 – were placed into 12 matched pairings of similar topography, ethnicity and population densities.
The surveys used a stratified two-stage cluster sample of eligible mothers aged 15 49 years from the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria.
Geopolitical calculation?
Geopolitical lines have blurred.
But they are mainly geopolitical.
