Galster GC: On the nature of neighbourhood. Urban Studies. 2001, 38: 2111-2124. 10.1080/00420980120087072.
Article
Google Scholar
Jones AP, van Sluijs EMF, Ness AR, Haynes R, Riddoch CJ: Physical activity in children: does how we define neighbourhood matter?. Health & Place. 2010, 16: 236-241. 10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.10.004.
Article
Google Scholar
Buzzelli M, Jerrett M, Burnett R, Finklestein N: Spatiotemporal perspectives on air pollution and environmental justice in Hamilton, Canada, 1985-1996. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 2003, 93: 557-573. 10.1111/1467-8306.9303003.
Article
Google Scholar
Glazier RH, Bradley EM, Gilbert JE, Rothman L: The nature of increased hospital use in poor neighbourhoods: Findings from a Canadian inner city. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2000, 91: 268-273.
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
James PD, Wilkins R, Detsky AS, Tugwell P, Manuel DG: Avoidable mortality by neighbourhood income in Canada: 25 years after the establishment of universal health insurance. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2007, 61: 287-296. 10.1136/jech.2006.047092.
Article
PubMed Central
PubMed
Google Scholar
Gauvin L, Robitaille E, Riva M, McLaren L, Dassa C, Potvin L: Conceptualizing and operationalizing neighbourhoods. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2007, 98: S18-S26.
PubMed
Google Scholar
Walks RA, Maaranen R: Gentrification, social mix, and social polarization: Testing the linkages in large Canadian cities. Urban Geography. 2008, 29: 293-326. 10.2747/0272-3638.29.4.293.
Article
Google Scholar
Généreux M, Auger N, Goneau M, Daniel M: Neighbourhood socioeconomic status, maternal education and adverse birth outcomes among mothers living near highways. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2008, 62: 695-700. 10.1136/jech.2007.066167.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Urquia ML, Frank JW, Glazier RH, Moineddin R, Matheson FI, Gagnon AJ: Neighborhood context and infant birthweight among recent immigrant mothers: A multilevel analysis. American Journal of Public Health. 2009, 99: 285-293. 10.2105/AJPH.2007.127498.
Article
PubMed Central
PubMed
Google Scholar
Luginaah IN, Jerrett M, Elliott S, Eyles J, Parizeau K, Birch S, Abernathy T, Veenstra G, Hutchinson B, Giovis C: Health Profiles of Hamilton: Spatial Characterisation of Neighbourhoods for Health Investigations. GeoJournal. 2001, 53: 135-147. 10.1023/A:1015724619845.
Article
Google Scholar
Ross NA, Tremblay S, Graham K: Neighborhood influences on health in Montreal, Canada. Social Science & Medicine. 2004, 59: 1485-1494. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.01.016.
Article
Google Scholar
Drackley A, Newbold KB, Taylor C: Defining Socially-Based Spatial Boundaries in the Region of Peel, Ontario, Canada. International Journal of Health Geographics. 2011, 10: 38-10.1186/1476-072X-10-38.
Article
PubMed Central
PubMed
Google Scholar
Matthews SA: The salience of neighbourhood; some lessons from sociology. Am J Prev Med. 2008, 34: 257-259. 10.1016/j.amepre.2007.12.001.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Stafford M, Duke-Williams O, Shelton N: Small are inequalities in health: are we underestimating them?. Social Science & Medicine. 2008, 67: 891-899. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.05.028.
Article
Google Scholar
Openshaw S: A geographical solution to scale and aggregation problems in region-building, partitioning and spatial modelling. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 1977, 2: 459-472. 10.2307/622300.
Article
Google Scholar
The modifiable areal unit problem. http://qmrg.org.uk/files/2008/11/38-maup-openshaw.pdfhttp://qmrg.org.uk/files/2008/11/38-maup-openshaw.pdf
Holt D, Steel DG, Tranmer M: Area homogeneity and the modifiable areal unit problem. Geographical Systems. 1996, 3: 181-200.
Google Scholar
Reynolds H, Amrhein C: Using a spatial data set generator in an empirical analysis of aggregation effects on univariate statistics. Geographical and Environmental Modelling. 1997, 1: 199-219.
Google Scholar
Gauvin L, Riva M, Barnett T, Richard L, Craig CL, Spivock M: Association between neighborhood active living potential and walking. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2008, 167: 944-953. 10.1093/aje/kwm391.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Statistics Canada - Census tract: Detailed Definition.http://geodepot.statcan.gc.ca/2006/180506051805140305/03150707/121514070405190318091620091514_05-eng.jsp?REFCODE=10LANG=EGEO_LEVEL=12TYPE=Lhttp://geodepot.statcan.gc.ca/2006/180506051805140305/03150707/121514070405190318091620091514_05-eng.jsp?REFCODE=10LANG=EGEO_LEVEL=12TYPE=L
Lee BA, Reardon SF, Firebaugh G, Farrell CR, Matthews SA, O'Sullivan D: Beyond the census tract: patterns of determinants of racial segregation at multiple geographic scales. American Sociological Review. 2008, 73: 766-791. 10.1177/000312240807300504.
Article
PubMed Central
PubMed
Google Scholar
Schaefer-McDaniel N, O'Brien Caughy M, O'Campo P, Gearey W: Examining methodological details of neighbourhood observations and the relationship to health: a literature review. Social Science & Medicine. 2010, 70: 277-292. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.10.018.
Article
Google Scholar
Schuurman N, Bell N, Dunn JR, Oliver L: Deprivation indices, population health and geography: an evaluation of the spatial effectiveness of indices at multiple scales. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 2007, 84: 591-603. 10.1007/s11524-007-9193-3.
Article
Google Scholar
Riva M, Gauvin L, Apparicio P, Brodeur JM: Disentangling the relative influence of built and socioeconomic environments on walking: the contribution of areas homogeneous along exposures of interest. Social Science & Medicine. 2009, 69: 1296-1305. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.07.019.
Article
Google Scholar
Briant A, Combes PP, Lafourcade M: Dots to boxes: do the size and shape of spatial units jeopardize economic geography estimations?. Journal of Urban Economics. 2010, 67: 287-302. 10.1016/j.jue.2009.09.014.
Article
Google Scholar
Jelinski DE, Wu J: The modifiable areal unit problem and implications for landscape ecology. Landscape Ecology. 1996, 11: 129-140. 10.1007/BF02447512.
Article
Google Scholar
Cockings S, Martin D: Zone design for environment and health studies using pre-aggregated data. Social Science & Medicine. 2005, 60: 2729-2742. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.11.005.
Article
Google Scholar
Fotheringham AS, Brunsdon C, Charlton ME: Geographically weighted regression: the analysis of spatially varying relationships. 2002, United Kingdom: Wiley
Google Scholar
Swift A, Liu L, Uber J: Reducing MAUP bias of correlation statistics between water quality and GI illness. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 2008, 32: 134-148. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2008.01.002.
Article
Google Scholar
Diniz-Filho JAF, Nabout JC, Telles MP, Soares TN, Rangel TFLVB: A review of techniques for spatial modeling in geographical, conservation and landscape genetics. Genetics and molecular Biology. 2009, 32: 203-211. 10.1590/S1415-47572009000200001.
Article
PubMed Central
PubMed
Google Scholar
Haynes R, Daras K, Reading R, Jones A: Modifiable neighbourhood units, zone design and residents' perceptions. Health & Place. 2007, 13: 812-825. 10.1016/j.healthplace.2007.01.002.
Article
Google Scholar
Mu L, Wang F: A scale-space clustering method: mitigating the effect of scale in the analysis zone-based data. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 2008, 98: 85-101. 10.1080/00045600701734224.
Article
Google Scholar
Daras K, Alvanides S: Zone design in public health policy. GIS for sustainable development. Edited by: Campagna M. 2006, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 247-265.
Google Scholar
Lee D, Ferguson C: Air pollution and health in Scotland: a multicity study. Biostatistics. 2009, 10: 409-423. 10.1093/biostatistics/kxp010.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Canadian Institute for Health Information: International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems, tenth revision, Canada. CIHI (2006) ICD-10-CA/CCI. 2006
Google Scholar
Kampa M, Castanas E: Human health effects of air pollution. Environmental Pollution. 2008, 151: 362-367. 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.06.012.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Discharge Abstract Database. http://www.cihi.ca/CIHI-ext-portal/internet/en/document/types+of+care/hospital+care/acute+care/services_dadhttp://www.cihi.ca/CIHI-ext-portal/internet/en/document/types+of+care/hospital+care/acute+care/services_dad
National Ambulatory Care Reporting System. http://www.cihi.ca/CIHI-ext-portal/internet/EN/TabbedContent/types+of+care/hospital+care/emergency+care/cihi016745http://www.cihi.ca/CIHI-ext-portal/internet/EN/TabbedContent/types+of+care/hospital+care/emergency+care/cihi016745
Parenteau M-P, Sawada M, Kristjansson EA, Calhoun M, Leclair S, Labonté R: Development of neighborhoods to measure spatial indicators of health. URISA Journal. 2008, 20: 43-55.
Google Scholar
BoundarySeer [Computer Software]. Ann Harbor, MI: Terraseer
Statistics Canada - Dissemination Area (DA): Detailed Definition.http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/ref/dict/geo021-eng.cfmhttp://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/ref/dict/geo021-eng.cfm
ArcGIS (version 9.2) [Computer software]. Redlands, CA: ESRI
Sahsuvaroglu T, Jerrett M, Sears MR, McConnell R, Finkelstein N, Arain A, Newbold B, Burnett R: Spatial analysis of air pollution and childhood asthma in Hamilton, Canada: comparing exposure methods in sensitive subgroups. Environmental Health. 2009, 8: 1-10.1186/1476-069X-8-1.
Article
Google Scholar
Jerrett M, Finkelstein M: Geographies of risk in studies linking chronic air pollution exposure to health outcomes. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part A. 2005, 68: 1207-1242. 10.1080/15287390590936085.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Diez-Roux AV: A glossary for multilevel analysis. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2002, 56: 588-594. 10.1136/jech.56.8.588.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Piro FN, Madsen C, Naess O, Nafstad P, Claussen B: A comparison of self reported air pollution in people with and without chronic diseases. Environmental Health. 2008, 7: 1-10.1186/1476-069X-7-1.
Article
Google Scholar
Parenteau M-P, Sawada MC: The role of spatial representation in the development of a LUR model for Ottawa, Canada. Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health. 2010, 1-13.
Google Scholar
Hu Z, Rao KR: Particulate air pollution and chronic ischemic heart disease in the eastern United States: a county level ecological study using satellite aerosol data. Environmental Health. 2009, 8: 1-10.1186/1476-069X-8-1.
Article
Google Scholar
SAS Institute Inc. (version 9.2) [Computer software]. Cary. NC: SAS Institute INC
Anselin L, Syabri I, Kho Y: GeoDa: An introduction to spatial data analysis. Geographical Analysis. 2006, 38: 5-22. 10.1111/j.0016-7363.2005.00671.x.
Article
Google Scholar
Anselin L: Spatial statistical modeling in a GIS environment. GIS, spatial analysis, and modelling. Edited by: Maguire D, Batty M, Goodchild MF. 2005, Redlands: ESRI Press, 93-111.
Google Scholar
Sridharan S, Tunstall H, Lawder R, Mitchell R: An exploratory spatial data analysis approach to understanding the relationship between deprivation and mortality in Scotland. Social Science & Medicine. 2007, 65: 1942-1952. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.05.052.
Article
Google Scholar
Henderson SB, Beckerman B, Jerrett M, Brauer M: Application of land use regression to estimate long-term concentrations of traffic-related nitrogen oxides and fine particulate matter. Environmental Science & Technology. 2007, 41: 2422-2428. 10.1021/es0606780.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Villeneuve PJ, Chen L, Stieb D, Rowe BH: Associations between outdoor air pollution and emergency department visits for stroke in Edmonton, Canada. European Journal of Epidemiology. 2006, 21: 689-700. 10.1007/s10654-006-9050-9.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Clark NA, Demers PA, Karr CJ, Koehoorn M, Lencar C, Tamburic L, Brauer M: Effect of early life exposure to air pollution on development of childhood asthma. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2010, 118: 284-290.
Article
PubMed Central
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Openshaw S, Taylor PJ: The modifiable areal unit problem. Quantitative geography: a British view. Edited by: Wrigley N, Bennett R. 1981, United Kingdom: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 60-69.
Google Scholar
Fotheringham AS: Scale-independent spatial analysis. Accuracy of spatial databases. Edited by: Goodchild M, Gopal S. 1989, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 221-228.
Google Scholar
Arbia G: Spatial data configuration in statistical analysis of regional economic and related problems. 1989, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Book
Google Scholar
Amrhein CG, Reynolds H: Using the Getis statistic to explore aggregation effects in metropolitan Toronto census data. The Canadian Geographer. 1997, 41: 137-149. 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1997.tb01154.x.
Article
Google Scholar
Fotheringham AS, Wong DWS: The modifiable area unit problem in multivariate analysis. Environment and Planning A. 1991, 23: 1025-1044. 10.1068/a231025.
Article
Google Scholar
Waller LA, Gotway CA: Applied spatial statistics for public health data. 2004, USA: Wiley
Book
Google Scholar
Goovaerts P: Geostatistical analysis of county-level lung cancer mortality rates in the southeastern United States. Geographical Analysis. 2010, 42: 32-52. 10.1111/j.1538-4632.2009.00781.x.
Article
PubMed Central
PubMed
Google Scholar
Reardon SF, Matthews SA, O'Sullivan D, Lee BA, Firebaugh G, Farrell CR, Bischoff K: The geographic scale of metropolitan racial segregation. Demography. 2008, 45: 489-514. 10.1353/dem.0.0019.
Article
PubMed Central
PubMed
Google Scholar
Sampson RJ, Morenoff JD: Spatial (dis) advantage and homicide in Chicago neighborhoods. Spatially integrated social science. Edited by: Goodchild M, Janelle D. 2004, New York: Oxford University Press, 145-170.
Google Scholar
McElmurry B, Buseh A, Dublin M: Health education program to control asthma in multiethnic, low-income urban communities: the Chicago health corps asthma program. Chest. 1999, 116: 198S-199S. 10.1378/chest.116.suppl_2.198S.
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Heyman J, Fisher A: Neighbourhoods, health research, and its relevance to public policy. Neighbourhoods and Health. Edited by: Kawachi I, Berkman LF. 2003, New York: Oxford University Press, 335-352.
Chapter
Google Scholar
Chaix B: Geographic life environments and coronary heart disease: a literature review, theoretical contributions, methodological updates, and a research agenda. Annu Rev Public Health. 2009, 30: 81-105. 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.031308.100158.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Ludwig J, Sanbonmatsu L, Gennetian L, Adam E, Duncan GJ, Katz LF, Kessler RC, Kling JR, Lindau ST, Whitaker RC, McDade TW: Neighborhoods, obesity, and diabetes -- A randomized social experiment. N Engl J Med. 2011, 365: 1509-1519. 10.1056/NEJMsa1103216.
Article
PubMed Central
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar