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  1. Continuous land cover modification is an important part of spatial epidemiology because it can help identify environmental factors and Culex mosquitoes associated with arbovirus transmission and thus guide contro...

    Authors: Benjamin G Jacob, Josephat Shililu, Ephantus J Muturi, Joseph M Mwangangi, Simon M Muriu, Jose Funes, John Githure, James L Regens and Robert J Novak
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:18
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  2. An extensive West Nile virus surveillance program of dead birds, mosquitoes, horses, and human infection has been launched as a result of West Nile virus first being reported in Canada in 2001. Some desktop an...

    Authors: Jiangping Shuai, Peter Buck, Paul Sockett, Jeff Aramini and Frank Pollari
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:17
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  3. Assessment of the spatial accessibility of hospital accident and emergency departments as perceived by local residents has not previously been investigated. Perceived accessibility may affect where, when, and ...

    Authors: David L Fone, Stephen Christie and Nathan Lester
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:16
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  4. Cluster detection is an important part of spatial epidemiology because it can help identifying environmental factors associated with disease and thus guide investigation of the aetiology of diseases. In this a...

    Authors: Geir Aamodt, Sven O Samuelsen and Anders Skrondal
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:15
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  5. The neighborhood social and physical environments are considered significant factors contributing to children's inactive lifestyles, poor eating habits, and high levels of childhood obesity. Understanding of n...

    Authors: Xingyou Zhang, Katherine Kaufer Christoffel, Maryann Mason and Lin Liu
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:14
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  6. To better understand the distribution of typhoid outbreaks in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted four investigations of typhoid fever. These studies included maps of cases reporte...

    Authors: Sarah E Hinman, Jason K Blackburn and Andrew Curtis
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:13
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  8. Neighborhood characteristics have been associated with poor maternal and child health outcomes, yet conceptualization of potential mechanisms is still needed. Census data have long served as proxies for area l...

    Authors: Barbara A Laraia, Lynne Messer, Jay S Kaufman, Nancy Dole, Margaret Caughy, Patricia O'Campo and David A Savitz
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:11
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  9. Stroke is a major cause of death and disability. About 5.3 million people die every year from stroke worldwide with over 9 million people surviving at any one time after suffering a stroke. About 1 in 4 men an...

    Authors: Ravi Maheswaran, Tim Pearson, Michael J Campbell, Robert P Haining, Cameron W McLeod, Nigel Smeeton and Charles DA Wolfe
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:10
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  11. We consider how representations of geographic variation in prostate cancer incidence across Southern New England, USA may be affected by selection of study area and/or properties of the statistical analysis.

    Authors: David I Gregorio, Holly Samociuk, Laurie DeChello and Helen Swede
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:8
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  12. Smoothing methods have been developed to improve the reliability of risk cancer estimates from sparsely populated geographical entities. Filtering local details of the spatial variation of the risk leads howev...

    Authors: Pierre Goovaerts
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:7
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  13. Open Source Web GIS software systems have reached a stage of maturity, sophistication, robustness and stability, and usability and user friendliness rivalling that of commercial, proprietary GIS and Web GIS se...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos and Kiyoshi Honda
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:6
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  14. Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection that is now endemic in most tropical countries. In Thailand, dengue fever/dengue hemorrhagic fever is a leading cause of hospitalization and death among children. A l...

    Authors: Sophie O Vanwambeke, Birgit HB van Benthem, Nardlada Khantikul, Chantal Burghoorn-Maas, Kamolwan Panart, Linda Oskam, Eric F Lambin and Pradya Somboon
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:5
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  15. This paper describes the Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeller (STEM) which is an extensible software system and framework for modelling the spatial and temporal progression of multiple diseases affecting mu...

    Authors: Daniel Alexander Ford, James H Kaufman and Iris Eiron
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:4
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  16. The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has great potential for the management of chronic disease and the analysis of clinical and administrative health care data. Asthma is a chronic disease associate...

    Authors: Ronit Peled, Haim Reuveni, Joseph S Pliskin, Itzhak Benenson, Erez Hatna and Asher Tal
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:3
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  18. Evaluation of mine risk education in Afghanistan used population weighted raster maps as an evaluation tool to assess mine education performance, coverage and costs. A stratified last-stage random cluster samp...

    Authors: Neil Andersson and Steven Mitchell
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:1
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  19. Tango's maximized excess events test (MEET) has been shown to have very good statistical power in detecting global disease clustering. A nice feature of this test is that it considers a range of spatial scale par...

    Authors: Changhong Song and Martin Kulldorff
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:32
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  20. Cancer mortality maps are used by public health officials to identify areas of excess and to guide surveillance and control activities. Quality of decision-making thus relies on an accurate quantification of r...

    Authors: Pierre Goovaerts
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:31
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  21. Numerous studies have shown that exposure to air pollutants in the area of residence and the socio-economic status of an individual may be related. Therefore, when conducting an epidemiological study on the he...

    Authors: Emilie Stroh, Anna Oudin, Susanna Gustafsson, Petter Pilesjö, Lars Harrie, Ulf Strömberg and Kristina Jakobsson
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:30
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  22. This article describes geographic bias in GIS analyses with unrepresentative data owing to missing geocodes, using as an example a spatial analysis of prostate cancer incidence among whites and African America...

    Authors: M Norman Oliver, Kevin A Matthews, Mir Siadaty, Fern R Hauck and Linda W Pickle
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:29
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  23. From 2000–2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded a study that was designed to improve the information available to program planners about the geographic distribution of CDC-funded HI...

    Authors: Carol L Hanchette, Deborah A Gibbs, Aisha Gilliam, Kieran J Fogarty and Mark Bruhn
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:28
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  24. This study aimed at identifying factors influencing the development of Human African Trypanosomosis (HAT, or sleeping sickness) in the focus of Bonon, located in the mesophile forest of Côte d'Ivoire. A previo...

    Authors: Fabrice Courtin, Vincent Jamonneau, Emmanuel Oké, Bamoro Coulibaly, Yohan Oswald, Sophie Dupont, Gérard Cuny, Jean-Pierre Doumenge and Philippe Solano
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:27
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  25. Many epidemiological studies examining the relationships between adverse health outcomes and exposure to air pollutants use ambient air pollution measurements as a proxy for personal exposure levels. When poll...

    Authors: Eleanor M Setton, Perry W Hystad and C Peter Keller
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:26
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  26. Income is known to be associated with cerebrovascular disease; however, little is known about the more detailed relationship between cerebrovascular disease and income. We examined the hypothesis that the geog...

    Authors: Daikwon Han, Shannon S Carrow, Peter A Rogerson and Frederick E Munschauer
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:25
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  27. "Activity space" has been used to examine how people's habitual movements interact with their environment, and can be used to examine accessibility to healthcare opportunities. Traditionally, the standard devi...

    Authors: Jill E Sherman, John Spencer, John S Preisser, Wilbert M Gesler and Thomas A Arcury
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:24
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  29. This eye-opener article aims at introducing the health GIS community to the emerging online consumer geoinformatics services from Google and Microsoft (MSN), and their potential utility in creating custom onli...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:22
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  30. After its first detection in North America in New York in 1999, West Nile virus was detected for the first time in 2002 in the province of Quebec, Canada. This situation forced the Government of Quebec to adop...

    Authors: Pierre Gosselin, Germain Lebel, Sonia Rivest and Monique Douville-Fradet
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:21
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  31. Population health planning aims to improve the health of the entire population and to reduce health inequities among population groups. Socioeconomic factors are increasingly being recognized as major determin...

    Authors: Agricola Odoi, Ron Wray, Marion Emo, Stephen Birch, Brian Hutchison, John Eyles and Tom Abernathy
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:20
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  32. The purpose of this study is to examine the spatial and population (e.g., socio-economic) characteristics of low birthweight using two different cluster estimation techniques. We compared the results of Kulldo...

    Authors: Esra Ozdenerol, Bryan L Williams, Su Young Kang and Melina S Magsumbol
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:19
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  33. West Nile Virus has quickly become a serious problem in the United States (US). Its extremely rapid diffusion throughout the country argues for a better understanding of its geographic dimensions. Both 2003 an...

    Authors: Daniel A Griffith
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:18
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. Plasmodium vivax malaria reemerged in the Republic of Korea in 1993, with more than 2,000 cases reported in the northwestern part of the country over the last 10 years. To better assess the risk of malaria transm...

    Authors: Ratana Sithiprasasna, Won Ja Lee, Donald M Ugsang and Kenneth J Linthicum
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:17
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  35. Spatial analyses and ecological studies are essential for epidemiology and public health. The present study combining these two methods was performed to identify spatial clusters of selected types of cancer in...

    Authors: Yoshiharu Fukuda, Masahiro Umezaki, Keiko Nakamura and Takehito Takano
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:16
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. Early detection is the best way to control breast cancer. This observational epidemiologic study uses ten years of data, 1988–1997, to determine whether the observed variations in the proportion of breast canc...

    Authors: T Joseph Sheehan and Laurie M DeChello
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:15
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. Childhood asthma is a significant public health problem in the United States and evidence is accumulating regarding the contribution from traffic and ambient air pollution. This study is a companion piece of a...

    Authors: Tonny J Oyana and Patrick A Rivers
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:14
    Content type: Research Published on:

  38. Vector-borne diseases are the most dreaded worldwide health problems. Although many campaigns against it have been conducted, Dengue Fever (DF) and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF) are still the major health pr...

    Authors: Kanchana Nakhapakorn and Nitin Kumar Tripathi
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

  39. Spatial filtering using a geographic information system (GIS) is often used to smooth health and ecological data. Smoothing disease data can help us understand local (neighborhood) geographic variation and eco...

    Authors: Mohammad Ali, Jin-Kyung Park, Vu Dinh Thiem, Do Gia Canh, Michael Emch and John D Clemens
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:12
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  40. The spatial scan statistic proposed by Kulldorff has been applied to a wide variety of epidemiological studies for cluster detection. This scan statistic, however, uses a circular window to define the potentia...

    Authors: Toshiro Tango and Kunihiko Takahashi
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:11
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  42. Most analyses of spatial clustering of disease have been based on either residence at the time of diagnosis or current residence. An underlying assumption in these analyses is that residence can be used as a p...

    Authors: Daikwon Han, Peter A Rogerson, Matthew R Bonner, Jing Nie, John E Vena, Paola Muti, Maurizio Trevisan and Jo L Freudenheim
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:9
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  43. Interest in the development of statistical methods for disease cluster detection has experienced rapid growth in recent years. Evaluations of statistical power provide important information for the selection o...

    Authors: Robin C Puett, Andrew B Lawson, Allan B Clark, Tim E Aldrich, Dwayne E Porter, Charles E Feigley and James R Hebert
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:8
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  44. Studying the contribution of individual countries to leading journals in a given discipline can highlight which countries have the most impact on that discipline, and also give some idea about the geographical...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:7
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  46. Sub-national figures providing information about the wealth of the population are useful in defining the spatial distribution of both economic activity and poverty within any given country. Furthermore, since ...

    Authors: Steeve Ebener, Christopher Murray, Ajay Tandon and Christopher C Elvidge
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:5
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  47. The rates of Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in England have been rising steadily since the mid 1990s, making them a major public health concern. In 2003, 672,718 people were diagnosed with an STD in Engl...

    Authors: Maged NKamel Boulos, Chris Russell and Michael Smith
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:4
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  48. There has long been a recognition that place matters in health, from recognition of clusters of yellow fever and cholera in the 1800s to modern day analyses of regional and neighborhood effects on cancer patte...

    Authors: Linda Williams Pickle, Lance A Waller and Andrew B Lawson
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:3
    Content type: Review Published on:

  49. EB-GIS4HEALTH UK aims at building a UK-oriented foundation evidence base and modular conceptual models for GIS applications and programmes in health and healthcare to improve the currently poor GIS state of af...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:2
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. Spatial variation in patterns of disease outcomes is often explored with techniques such as cluster detection analysis. In other types of investigations, geographically varying individual or community level ch...

    Authors: Ann Carroll Klassen, Martin Kulldorff and Frank Curriero
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:1
    Content type: Research Published on:
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