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Critical Circuits: Health Facility Electrification in the African Great Lakes Region
Critical Circuits: Health Facility Electrification in the African Great Lakes Region
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103529
- ISBN
- 9798288866258
- DDC
- 621.3
- 서명/저자
- Critical Circuits: Health Facility Electrification in the African Great Lakes Region
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Berkeley, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 132 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-01, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Kammen, Daniel M.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation investigates the interdependence between decentralized energy systems and health infrastructure in under-resourced and humanitarian contexts, centering electricity as a critical determinant of public health capacity. Through interconnected case studies across sites in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), it develops field evaluation frameworks for assessing productive uses of electricity (PUE), power quality and reliability (PQR) in health facilities, and medical oxygen systems around empirically grounded energy realities. First, I present a detailed techno-economic analysis of "OffGridBox", a modular, redeployable solar-powered system co-located at off-grid communities and clinics in Rwanda in the COVID-19 context. Second, drawing on two years of continuous monitoring at 25 health facilities in North Kivu, DRC, I quantify electricity reliability and quality using high-frequency sensor data, highlighting both the inadequacy of binary access metrics and the need for circuit-level monitoring. Third, I examine the cascading effects of energy insecurity on oxygen access, combining mortality records, surveys, and sensor-based monitoring of bedside oxygen concentrators. Taken together, this work centers electricity quality and reliability-not just availability-as enabling conditions for medical service delivery. It generates evidence for the integrated design of distributed energy and medical systems-specifically, arguing for a shift away from donation-based, OECD-standard stationary oxygen concentrators and towards LMIC-adapted systems at the ward- and whole-of-facility scale. By grounding energy and health systems research in locally produced data, the chapters aim to contour synergistic strategies for tracking and advancing Sustainable Development Goal 7 (universal energy access) in tandem with Goal 3 (health for all) appropriate for the geographies most in need of critical attention and care.
- 일반주제명
- Electrical engineering
- 일반주제명
- Public health
- 일반주제명
- African studies
- 키워드
- Medical oxygen
- 키워드
- Power quality
- 키워드
- Rwanda
- 기타저자
- University of California, Berkeley Energy & Resources
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-01B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aThis dissertation investigates the interdependence between decentralized energy systems and health infrastructure in under-resourced and humanitarian contexts, centering electricity as a critical determinant of public health capacity. Through interconnected case studies across sites in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), it develops field evaluation frameworks for assessing productive uses of electricity (PUE), power quality and reliability (PQR) in health facilities, and medical oxygen systems around empirically grounded energy realities. First, I present a detailed techno-economic analysis of "OffGridBox", a modular, redeployable solar-powered system co-located at off-grid communities and clinics in Rwanda in the COVID-19 context. Second, drawing on two years of continuous monitoring at 25 health facilities in North Kivu, DRC, I quantify electricity reliability and quality using high-frequency sensor data, highlighting both the inadequacy of binary access metrics and the need for circuit-level monitoring. Third, I examine the cascading effects of energy insecurity on oxygen access, combining mortality records, surveys, and sensor-based monitoring of bedside oxygen concentrators. Taken together, this work centers electricity quality and reliability-not just availability-as enabling conditions for medical service delivery. It generates evidence for the integrated design of distributed energy and medical systems-specifically, arguing for a shift away from donation-based, OECD-standard stationary oxygen concentrators and towards LMIC-adapted systems at the ward- and whole-of-facility scale. By grounding energy and health systems research in locally produced data, the chapters aim to contour synergistic strategies for tracking and advancing Sustainable Development Goal 7 (universal energy access) in tandem with Goal 3 (health for all) appropriate for the geographies most in need of critical attention and care.
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■653 ▼aPower quality
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