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  2. This paper provides a brief overview of, and elaborates on, some of the presentations, discussions and conclusions from Day 4 of the ‘WHO EURO 2014 International Healthy Cities Conference: Health and the City ...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos, Agis D Tsouros and Arto Holopainen

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2015 14:3

    Content type: Editorial

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  4. The range of influence refers to the average distance between locations at which the observed outcome is no longer correlated. In many studies, missing data occur and a popular tool for handling missing data i...

    Authors: Kristine Bihrmann and Annette K Ersbøll

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2015 14:1

    Content type: Methodology

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  5. A lack of physical activity and overconsumption of energy dense food is associated with overweight and obesity. The neighbourhood environment may stimulate or hinder the development and/or maintenance of a hea...

    Authors: John R Bethlehem, Joreintje D Mackenbach, Maher Ben-Rebah, Sofie Compernolle, Ketevan Glonti, Helga Bárdos, Harry R Rutter, Hélène Charreire, Jean-Michel Oppert, Johannes Brug and Jeroen Lakerveld

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:52

    Content type: Methodology

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  6. Measuring mobility is critical for understanding neighborhood influences on older adults’ health and functioning. Global Positioning Systems (GPS) may represent an important opportunity to measure, describe, a...

    Authors: Jana A Hirsch, Meghan Winters, Philippa Clarke and Heather McKay

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:51

    Content type: Research

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  7. The global spread and the increased frequency and magnitude of epidemic dengue in the last 50 years underscore the urgent need for effective tools for surveillance, prevention, and control. This review aims at...

    Authors: Valérie R Louis, Revati Phalkey, Olaf Horstick, Pitcha Ratanawong, Annelies Wilder-Smith, Yesim Tozan and Peter Dambach

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:50

    Content type: Review

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  8. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become an important tool in monitoring and improving health services, particularly at local levels. However, GIS data are often unavailable in rural settings and villa...

    Authors: Fabien Munyaneza, Lisa R Hirschhorn, Cheryl L Amoroso, Laetitia Nyirazinyoye, Ermyas Birru, Jean Claude Mugunga, Rachel M Murekatete and Joseph Ntaganira

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:49

    Content type: Methodology

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  9. The role that environmental factors, such as neighborhood socioeconomics, food, and physical environment, play in the risk of obesity and chronic diseases is not well quantified. Understanding how spatial dist...

    Authors: Barbara A Laraia, Samuel D Blanchard, Andrew J Karter, Jessica C Jones-Smith, Margaret Warton, Ellen Kersten, Michael Jerrett, Howard H Moffet, Nancy Adler, Dean Schillinger and Maggi Kelly

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:48

    Content type: Research

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  10. Spatial analysis is increasingly important for identifying modifiable geographic risk factors for disease. However, spatial health data from surveys are often incomplete, ranging from missing data for only a f...

    Authors: Jannah Baker, Nicole White and Kerrie Mengersen

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:47

    Content type: Research

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  12. Predicting the spatial distribution of pathogens with an environmental stage is challenging because of the difficulty to detect them in environmental samples. Among these pathogens, the parasite Toxoplasma gondii

    Authors: Cécile Gotteland, Brent M McFerrin, Xiaopeng Zhao, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont and Maud Lélu

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:45

    Content type: Research

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  13. The mode of transmission of the emerging neglected disease Buruli ulcer is unknown. Several potential transmission pathways have been proposed, such as amoebae, or transmission through food webs. Several lines...

    Authors: Kevin Carolan, Solange Meyin À Ebong, Andres Garchitorena, Jordi Landier, Daniel Sanhueza, Gaëtan Texier, Laurent Marsollier, Philipe Le Gall, Jean-François Guégan and Danny Lo Seen

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:44

    Content type: Research

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  14. The World Health Organization recommends strategies to improve urban design, public transportation, and recreation facilities to facilitate physical activity for non-communicable disease prevention for an incr...

    Authors: Marc A Adams, Lawrence D Frank, Jasper Schipperijn, Graham Smith, James Chapman, Lars B Christiansen, Neil Coffee, Deborah Salvo, Lorinne du Toit, Jan Dygrýn, Adriano Akira Ferreira Hino, Poh-chin Lai, Suzanne Mavoa, José David Pinzón, Nico Van de Weghe, Ester Cerin…

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:43

    Content type: Research

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  16. A youths’ neighborhood can play an important role in their physical, health, and emotional development. The prevalence of health risk behavior (HRB) in Czech youth such as smoking, drug and alcohol use is the ...

    Authors: Jana Spilkova, Dagmar Dzúrova and Michal Pitonak

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:41

    Content type: Research

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  17. Identification of active or sedentary modes of transport is of relevance for studies assessing physical activity or addressing exposure assessment. We assessed in a proof-of-principle study if speed as logged ...

    Authors: Anke Huss, Johan Beekhuizen, Hans Kromhout and Roel Vermeulen

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:40

    Content type: Methodology

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  18. Utilization of spatial statistics and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies remain underrepresented in the community-engagement literature, despite its potential role in informing community outreac...

    Authors: Corrine W Ruktanonchai, Deepa K Pindolia, Catherine W Striley, Folakemi T Odedina and Linda B Cottler

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:39

    Content type: Research

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  19. To develop a method to use survey data to establish catchment areas of primary care or Primary Care Service Areas. Primary Care Service Areas are small areas, the majority of patients resident in which obtain ...

    Authors: Soumya Mazumdar, Xiaoqi Feng, Paul Konings, Ian McRae and Federico Girosi

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:38

    Content type: Methodology

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  20. Environmental exposure assessments often require a study participant’s residential location, but the positional accuracy of geocoding varies by method and the rural status of an address. We evaluated geocoding...

    Authors: Rena R Jones, Curt T DellaValle, Abigail R Flory, Alex Nordan, Jane A Hoppin, Jonathan N Hofmann, Honglei Chen, James Giglierano, Charles F Lynch, Laura E Beane Freeman, Gerard Rushton and Mary H Ward

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:37

    Content type: Research

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  21. Multilevel and spatial models are being increasingly used to obtain substantive information on area-level inequalities in cancer survival. Multilevel models assume independent geographical areas, whereas spati...

    Authors: Paramita Dasgupta, Susanna M Cramb, Joanne F Aitken, Gavin Turrell and Peter D Baade

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:36

    Content type: Research

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  22. Malaria is a mosquito-borne parasitic disease that causes severe mortality and morbidity, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. As the vectors predominantly bite between dusk and dawn, risk of infection is deter...

    Authors: Lutz Ehlkes, Anne Caroline Krefis, Benno Kreuels, Ralf Krumkamp, Ohene Adjei, Matilda Ayim-Akonor, Robin Kobbe, Andreas Hahn, Christof Vinnemeier, Wibke Loag, Udo Schickhoff and Jürgen May

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:35

    Content type: Research

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  23. Tanapox virus is a zoonotic infection that causes mild febrile illness and one to several nodular skin lesions. The disease is endemic in parts of Africa. The principal reservoir for the virus that causes Tana...

    Authors: Benjamin P Monroe, Yoshinori J Nakazawa, Mary G Reynolds and Darin S Carroll

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:34

    Content type: Research

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  24. The residential care system is rapidly developing and plays an increasingly important role in care for the elderly in Beijing. A noticeable disparity in the accessibility to existing residential care facilitie...

    Authors: Zhuolin Tao, Yang Cheng, Teqi Dai and Mark W Rosenberg

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:33

    Content type: Research

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  26. DED rate maps from diverse regions may allow us to understand world-wide spreading pattern of the disease. Only few studies compared the prevalence of DED between geographical regions in non-spatial context. T...

    Authors: Sun-Bi Um, Na Hyun Kim, Hyung Keun Lee, Jong Suk Song and Hyeon Chang Kim

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:31

    Content type: Research

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  27. Mercury is a metal with widespread distribution in aquatic ecosystems and significant neurodevelopmental toxicity in humans. Fish biomonitoring for total mercury has been conducted in South Carolina (SC) since...

    Authors: James B Burch, Sara Wagner Robb, Robin Puett, Bo Cai, Rebecca Wilkerson, Wilfried Karmaus, John Vena and Erik Svendsen

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:30

    Content type: Research

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  29. Previous studies testing the association between the built environment and walking behavior have been largely cross-sectional and have yielded mixed results. This study reports on a natural experiment in which...

    Authors: Guibo Sun, Nicolas M Oreskovic and Hui Lin

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:28

    Content type: Research

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  30. There is a growing international literature assessing inequalities in health and mortality by area based measures. However, there are few works comparing measures available to inform research design. The analy...

    Authors: Kevin Ralston, Ruth Dundas and Alastair H Leyland

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:27

    Content type: Research

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  31. West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne pathogen of global public health importance. Transmission of WNV is determined by abiotic and biotic factors. The objective of this study was to examine environmental ...

    Authors: Annelise Tran, Bertrand Sudre, Shlomit Paz, Massimiliano Rossi, Annie Desbrosse, Véronique Chevalier and Jan C Semenza

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:26

    Content type: Research

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  32. Access to skilled attendance at childbirth is crucial to reduce maternal and newborn mortality. Several different measures of geographic access are used concurrently in public health research, with the assumpt...

    Authors: Robin C Nesbitt, Sabine Gabrysch, Alexandra Laub, Seyi Soremekun, Alexander Manu, Betty R Kirkwood, Seeba Amenga-Etego, Kenneth Wiru, Bernhard Höfle and Chris Grundy

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:25

    Content type: Research

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  33. The precise trigger of podoconiosis — endemic non-filarial elephantiasis of the lower legs — is unknown. Epidemiological and ecological studies have linked the disease with barefoot exposure to red clay soils ...

    Authors: Yordanos B Molla, Nicola A Wardrop, Jennifer S Le Blond, Peter Baxter, Melanie J Newport, Peter M Atkinson and Gail Davey

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:24

    Content type: Research

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  34. Evidence linking outdoor air pollution and incidence of ischemic stroke subtypes and severity is limited. We examined associations between outdoor PM10 and NO2 concentrations modeled at a fine spatial resolution ...

    Authors: Ravi Maheswaran, Tim Pearson, Sean D Beevers, Michael J Campbell and Charles D Wolfe

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:23

    Content type: Research

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  35. Although widely used, area-based deprivation indices remain sensitive to urban–rural differences as such indices are usually standardised around typical urban values. There is, therefore, a need to determine t...

    Authors: Mélanie Bertin, Cécile Chevrier, Fabienne Pelé, Tania Serrano-Chavez, Sylvaine Cordier and Jean-François Viel

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:22

    Content type: Research

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  36. Natural-focal diseases constitute a serious hazard for human health. Agents and vectors of such diseases belong to natural landscapes. The aim of this study is to identify the diversity and geography of natura...

    Authors: Svetlana M Malkhazova, Varvara A Mironova, Tatiana V Kotova, Natalia V Shartova and Dmitry S Orlov

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:21

    Content type: Research

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  38. Google Street View provides a valuable and efficient alternative to observe the physical environment compared to on-site fieldwork. However, studies on the use, reliability and validity of Google Street View i...

    Authors: Griet Vanwolleghem, Delfien Van Dyck, Fabian Ducheyne, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij and Greet Cardon

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:19

    Content type: Research

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  39. Despite recommendations for cancer screening for breast and colorectal cancer among the Medicare population, preventive screenings rates are often lower among vulnerable populations such as the small but rapid...

    Authors: Samuel D Towne Jr, Matthew Lee Smith and Marcia G Ory

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:18

    Content type: Research

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  40. Predictive models of malaria vector larval habitat locations may provide a basis for understanding the spatial determinants of malaria transmission.

    Authors: Robert S McCann, Joseph P Messina, David W MacFarlane, M Nabie Bayoh, John M Vulule, John E Gimnig and Edward D Walker

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:17

    Content type: Research

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  41. A linear programming (LP) model was proposed to create de-identified data sets that maximally include spatial detail (e.g., geocodes such as ZIP or postal codes, census blocks, and locations on maps) while com...

    Authors: Ho-Won Jung and Khaled El Emam

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:16

    Content type: Methodology

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  42. Just as power, type I error of cluster detection tests (CDTs) should be spatially assessed. Indeed, CDTs’ type I error and power have both a spatial component as CDTs both detect and locate clusters. In the ca...

    Authors: Aline Guttmann, Xinran Li, Jean Gaudart, Yan Gérard, Jacques Demongeot, Jean-Yves Boire and Lemlih Ouchchane

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:15

    Content type: Methodology

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  44. Spatial heterogeneity in the incidence of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is an important aspect to be considered in planning control actions for the disease. The objective of this study was to predict areas at hi...

    Authors: Andréa S Almeida and Guilherme L Werneck

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:13

    Content type: Research

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  45. Predicting anopheles vectors’ population densities and boundary shifts is crucial in preparing for malaria risks and unanticipated outbreaks. Although shifts in the distribution and boundaries of the major mal...

    Authors: Henri EZ Tonnang, David P Tchouassi, Henry S Juarez, Lilian K Igweta and Rousseau F Djouaka

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:12

    Content type: Research

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  46. There is now a substantial body of research suggesting that social cohesion, a collective characteristic measured by the levels of trust, reciprocity and formation of strong social bonds within communities, is...

    Authors: Crispin H V Cooper, David L Fone and Alain J F Chiaradia

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:11

    Content type: Research

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  47. This article gives a brief overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) for cities, offering examples of IoT-powered 21st century smart cities, including the experience of the Spanish city of Barcelona in implemen...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos and Najeeb M Al-Shorbaji

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:10

    Content type: Editorial

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  49. Health and inequalities in health among inhabitants of European cities are of major importance for European public health and there is great interest in how different health care systems in Europe perform in t...

    Authors: Rasmus Hoffmann, Gerard Borsboom, Marc Saez, Marc Mari Dell’Olmo, Bo Burström, Diana Corman, Claudia Costa, Patrick Deboosere, M Felicitas Domínguez-Berjón, Dagmar Dzúrová, Ana Gandarillas, Mercè Gotsens, Katalin Kovács, Johan Mackenbach, Pekka Martikainen, Laia Maynou…

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:8

    Content type: Research

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  50. A residential area supportive for walking may facilitate elderly to live longer independently. However, current evidence on area characteristics potentially important for walking among older persons is mixed. ...

    Authors: Astrid Etman, Carlijn BM Kamphuis, Richard G Prins, Alex Burdorf, Frank H Pierik and Frank J van Lenthe

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:7

    Content type: Research

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