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  1. Doing regular physical activity has positive effects on health. Several environmental factors are identified as important correlates of physical activity. However, there seems to be a difference between percei...

    Authors: Bart Dewulf, Tijs Neutens, Delfien Van Dyck, Ilse de Bourdeaudhuij and Nico Van de Weghe
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:43
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  2. Evaluating geographic access to health services often requires determining the patient travel time to a specified service. For urgent care, many research studies have modeled patient pre-hospital time by groun...

    Authors: Alka B Patel, Nigel M Waters, Ian E Blanchard, Christopher J Doig and William A Ghali
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:42
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  3. The R project includes a large variety of packages designed for spatial statistics. Google dynamic maps provide web based access to global maps and satellite imagery. We describe a method for displaying direct...

    Authors: Richard Newton, Andrew Deonarine and Lorenz Wernisch
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:41
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  4. Primary health care is essential in improving and maintaining the health of populations. It has the potential to accelerate achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and fulfill the “Health for All” doct...

    Authors: Ulises Huerta Munoz and Carina Källestål
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:40
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  5. Because their distribution usually depends on the presence of more than one species, modelling zoonotic diseases in humans differs from modelling individual species distribution even though the data are simila...

    Authors: Caroline B Zeimes, Gert E Olsson, Clas Ahlm and Sophie O Vanwambeke
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:39
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  7. Socioeconomic factors are increasingly recognised as related to health inequalities in Germany and are also identified as important contributing factors for an increased risk of acquiring infections. The aim o...

    Authors: Hendrik Wilking, Michael Höhle, Edward Velasco, Marlen Suckau and Tim Eckmanns
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:37
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  8. Spatial analysis is a relevant set of tools for studying the geographical distribution of diseases, although its methods and techniques for analysis may yield very different results. A new hybrid approach has ...

    Authors: José A Salinas-Pérez, Carlos R García-Alonso, Cristina Molina-Parrilla, Esther Jordà-Sampietro and Luis Salvador-Carulla
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:36
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  9. Despite national policies to promote user choice for health services in many European countries, current trends in maternity unit closures create a context in which user choice may be reduced, not expanded. Li...

    Authors: Hugo Pilkington, Béatrice Blondel, Nicolas Drewniak and Jennifer Zeitlin
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:35
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  10. A type III error arises from a two-sided test, when one side is erroneously favoured although the true effect actually resides on the other side. The relevance of this grave error in decision-making is studied...

    Authors: Harald Heinzl and Thomas Waldhoer
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:34
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  11. Over the past century, the size and complexity of the air travel network has increased dramatically. Nowadays, there are 29.6 million scheduled flights per year and around 2.7 billion passengers are transporte...

    Authors: Zhuojie Huang, Anirrudha Das, Youliang Qiu and Andrew J Tatem
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:33
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  12. As the population is ageing rapidly in Beijing, the residential care sector is in a fast expansion process with the support of the municipal government. Understanding spatial accessibility to residential care ...

    Authors: Yang Cheng, Jiaoe Wang and Mark W Rosenberg
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:32
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  13. There is ample evidence that residential neighbourhoods can influence mental well-being (MWB), with most studies relying on census or similar data to characterize communities. Few studies have actively investi...

    Authors: Amanda J Sheppard, Christina Salmon, Priya Balasubramaniam, Janet Parsons, Gita Singh, Amina Jabbar, Qamar Zaidi, Allison Scott, Rosane Nisenbaum, Jim Dunn, Jason Ramsay, Nasim Haque and Patricia O’Campo
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:31
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  14. Little is known about the effects of socio-environmental factors on dental caries in different demographic situations in Asian populations. We investigated whether the nature of the association between regiona...

    Authors: Hoo-Yeon Lee, Youn-Hee Choi, Hyoung Wook Park and Sang Gyu Lee
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:30
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  15. Previous studies have provided mixed evidence with regards to associations between food store access and dietary outcomes. This study examines the most commonly applied measures of locational access to assess ...

    Authors: Lukar E Thornton, Jamie R Pearce, Laura Macdonald, Karen E Lamb and Anne Ellaway
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:29
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  16. Frequent and long-term commuting is a requirement for dialysis patients. Accessibility thus affects their quality of lives. In this paper, a new model for accessibility measurement is proposed in which both ge...

    Authors: Masatoshi Matsumoto, Takahiko Ogawa, Saori Kashima and Keisuke Takeuchi
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:28
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  17. In 1995, a study was conducted to identify the effects of traditional and westernized environments on the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Pima Indians (Pimas) in Mexico and the United States. The study conclu...

    Authors: Mario A Giraldo, Lisa S Chaudhari and Leslie O Schulz
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:27
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  18. Obesity researchers increasingly use geographic information systems to measure exposure and access in neighborhood food and physical activity environments. This paper proposes a network buffering approach, the...

    Authors: Ann Forsyth, David Van Riper, Nicole Larson, Melanie Wall and Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:14
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  19. Dengue cases have increased during the last decades, particularly in non-endemic areas, and Argentina was no exception in the southern transmission fringe. Although temperature rise has been blamed for this, h...

    Authors: Aníbal E Carbajo, María V Cardo and Darío Vezzani
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:26
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  20. Real-time locating systems (RTLS, also known as real-time location systems) have become an important component of many existing ubiquitous location aware systems. While GPS (global positioning system) has been...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos and Geoff Berry
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:25
    Content type: Review Published on:

  21. Ease of access to health care is of great importance in any country but particularly in countries such as Niger where restricted access can put people at risk of mortality from diseases such as measles, mening...

    Authors: Justine I Blanford, Supriya Kumar, Wei Luo and Alan M MacEachren
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:24
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  22. Maps of disease occurrences and GIS-based models of disease transmission risk are increasingly common, and both rely on georeferenced diseases data. Automated methods for georeferencing disease data have been ...

    Authors: R Ryan Lash, Darin S Carroll, Christine M Hughes, Yoshinori Nakazawa, Kevin Karem, Inger K Damon and A Townsend Peterson
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:23
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  23. Inconsistencies in research findings on the impact of the built environment on walking across the life course may be methodologically driven. Commonly used methods to define ‘neighbourhood’, from which built e...

    Authors: Bryan J Boruff, Andrea Nathan and Sandra Nijënstein
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:22
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  24. In the field of earth observation, hyperspectral detector systems allow precise target detections of surface components from remote sensing platforms. This enables specific land covers to be identified without...

    Authors: Ron Martin, Boris Thies and Andreas OH Gerstner
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:21
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  25. Annual influenza epidemics occur worldwide resulting in considerable morbidity and mortality. Spreading pattern of influenza is not well understood because it is often hampered by the quality of surveillance d...

    Authors: Yugo Shobugawa, Seth A Wiafe, Reiko Saito, Tsubasa Suzuki, Shinako Inaida, Kiyosu Taniguchi and Hiroshi Suzuki
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:20
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  27. The WHO Multiple Exposures Multiple Effects (MEME) framework identifies community contextual variables as central to the study of childhood health. Here we identify multiple domains of neighborhood context, an...

    Authors: Andrew Rundle, Virginia A Rauh, James Quinn, Gina Lovasi, Leonardo Trasande, Ezra Susser and Howard F Andrews
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:18
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  28. This is the first study to describe the geographical and temporal distribution of notifiable gastrointestinal illness (NGI) in the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. Understanding the distribution of NGI in ...

    Authors: Aliya Pardhan-Ali, Olaf Berke, Jeff Wilson, Victoria L Edge, Chris Furgal, Richard Reid-Smith, Maria Santos and Scott A McEwen
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:17
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  29. Economic impacts of seasonal influenza vary across US counties, but little estimation has been conducted at the county level. This research computed annual economic costs of seasonal influenza for 3143 US coun...

    Authors: Liang Mao, Yang Yang, Youliang Qiu and Yan Yang
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:16
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  30. Inequalities in geographic access to health care result from the configuration of facilities, population distribution, and the transportation infrastructure. In recent accessibility studies, the traditional di...

    Authors: Paul L Delamater, Joseph P Messina, Ashton M Shortridge and Sue C Grady
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:15
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  31. Anopheles albimanus is among the most important vectors of human malaria in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean Basin (M-C). Here, we use topographic data and 1950–2000 climate (near present), and future climate (2080)...

    Authors: Douglas O Fuller, Martha L Ahumada, Martha L Quiñones, Sócrates Herrera and John C Beier
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:13
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  32. Mortality estimates can measure and monitor the impacts of conflict on a population, guide humanitarian efforts, and help to better understand the public health impacts of conflict. Vital statistics registrati...

    Authors: LP Galway, Nathaniel Bell, Al Shatari SAE, Amy Hagopian, Gilbert Burnham, Abraham Flaxman, Wiliam M Weiss, Julie Rajaratnam and Tim K Takaro
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:12
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  33. Built environment features of neighborhoods may be related to obesity among adolescents and potentially related to obesity-related health disparities. The purpose of this study was to investigate spatial relat...

    Authors: Dustin T Duncan, Marcia C Castro, Steven L Gortmaker, Jared Aldstadt, Steven J Melly and Gary G Bennett
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:11
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  34. We employed a leave-one-out cross validation to determine optimally sized neighborhood. Variations between a single point and the other points within each filter size for all the points in the study area were ...

    Authors: Deok Ryun Kim, Mohammad Ali, Dipika Sur, Ahmed Khatib and Thomas F Wierzba
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:10
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  35. The study conducts statistical and spatial analyses to investigate amounts and types of permitted surface water pollution discharges in relation to population mortality rates for cancer and non-cancer causes n...

    Authors: Michael Hendryx, Jamison Conley, Evan Fedorko, Juhua Luo and Matthew Armistead
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:9
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  36. The use of remote sensing has found its way into the field of epidemiology within the last decades. With the increased sensor resolution of recent and future satellites new possibilities emerge for high resolu...

    Authors: Peter Dambach, Vanessa Machault, Jean-Pierre Lacaux, Cécile Vignolles, Ali Sié and Rainer Sauerborn
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:8
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  38. Health care utilization is affected by several factors including geographic accessibility. Empirical data on utilization of health facilities is important to understanding geographic accessibility and defining...

    Authors: Victor A Alegana, Jim A Wright, Uusiku Pentrina, Abdisalan M Noor, Robert W Snow and Peter M Atkinson
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:6
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  39. Many public health problems in modern society affect the gastrointestinal area. Knowledge of the disease occurrence in populations is better understood if viewed in a psychosocial context including indicators ...

    Authors: Ewa Grodzinsky, Claes Hallert, Tomas Faresjö, Elisabet Bergfors and Åshild Olsen Faresjö
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:5
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  40. Emissions from refineries include a wide range of substances, such as chrome, lead, nickel, zinc, arsenic, cadmium, benzene, dioxins and furans, all of which are recognized by the International Agency for Rese...

    Authors: Rebeca Ramis, Peter Diggle, Elena Boldo, Javier Garcia-Perez, Pablo Fernandez-Navarro and Gonzalo Lopez-Abente
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:4
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  41. Progress has been made recently in estimating ambient PM2.5 (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter < 2.5 μm) and ozone concentrations using various data sources and advanced modeling techniques, which resu...

    Authors: Yongping Hao, Helen Flowers, Michele M Monti and Judith R Qualters
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:3
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  43. European ecologic studies suggest higher socioeconomic status is associated with higher incidence of type 1 diabetes. Using data from a case-control study of diabetes among racially/ethnically diverse youth in...

    Authors: Angela D Liese, Robin C Puett, Archana P Lamichhane, Michele D Nichols, Dana Dabelea, Andrew B Lawson, Dwayne E Porter, James D Hibbert, Ralph B D'Agostino Jr and Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2012 11:1
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  44. The complex epidemiology of vector-borne diseases creates significant challenges in the design and delivery of prevention and control strategies, especially in light of rapid social and environmental changes. ...

    Authors: Valerie Hongoh, Anne Gatewood Hoen, Cécile Aenishaenslin, Jean-Philippe Waaub, Denise Bélanger and Pascal Michel
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:70
    Content type: Review Published on:

  45. The Community Health Information System (CHIS) online mapping system was first launched in 1998. Its overarching goal was to provide researchers, residents and organizations access to health related data refle...

    Authors: Linda Highfield, Jutas Arthasarnprasit, Cecelia A Ottenweller and Arnaud Dasprez
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:69
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  46. Epidemiologic studies have linked exposure to traffic-generated air and noise pollution with a wide range of adverse health effects in children. Children spend a large portion of time at school, and both air p...

    Authors: Ofer Amram, Rebecca Abernethy, Michael Brauer, Hugh Davies and Ryan W Allen
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:68
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  47. 'Wikification of GIS by the masses' is a phrase-term first coined by Kamel Boulos in 2005, two years earlier than Goodchild's term 'Volunteered Geographic Information'. Six years later (2005-2011), OpenStreetM...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos, Bernd Resch, David N Crowley, John G Breslin, Gunho Sohn, Russ Burtner, William A Pike, Eduardo Jezierski and Kuo-Yu Slayer Chuang
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:67
    Content type: Review Published on:

  48. Emerging empirical evidence suggests exposure to "green" environments may encourage higher levels of physical activity among children. Few studies, however, have explored this association exclusively in pre-sc...

    Authors: Diana S Grigsby-Toussaint, Sang-Hyun Chi and Barbara H Fiese
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:66
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  49. Malaria remains a major health problem in French Guiana, with a mean of 3800 cases each year. A previous study in Camopi, an Amerindian village on the Oyapock River, highlighted the major contribution of envir...

    Authors: Aurélia Stefani, Emmanuel Roux, Jean-Marie Fotsing and Bernard Carme
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:65
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  50. Global positioning systems (GPS) are increasingly being used in health research to determine the location of study participants. Combining GPS data with data collected via travel/activity diaries allows researche...

    Authors: Suzanne Mavoa, Melody Oliver, Karen Witten and Hannah M Badland
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:64
    Content type: Methodology Published on:
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