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  1. 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:

  2. 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:

  3. 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:

  5. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  9. 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:

  10. 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:

  11. 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:

  12. 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:

  13. 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:

  16. The use of spatially referenced data in cancer studies is gaining in prominence, fueled by the development and availability of spatial analytic tools and the broadening recognition of the linkages between geog...

    Authors: Francis P Boscoe, Mary H Ward and Peggy Reynolds
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:28
    Content type: Review Published on:

  17. There is evidence of a contribution of early life socioeconomic exposures to the risk of chronic diseases in adulthood. However, extant studies investigating the impact of the neighborhood social environment o...

    Authors: Kathryn M Rose, Joy L Wood, Sarah Knowles, Ricardo A Pollitt, Eric A Whitsel, Ana V Diez Roux, DongKeun Yoon and Gerardo Heiss
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:27
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  18. Recent years have seen an expansion in the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in environmental health research. In this field GIS can be used to detect disease clustering, to analyze access to hospita...

    Authors: Gillian A AvRuskin, Geoffrey M Jacquez, Jaymie R Meliker, Melissa J Slotnick, Andrew M Kaufmann and Jerome O Nriagu
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:26
    Content type: Research Published on:

  19. Accidental poisoning is one of the leading causes of injury in the United States, second only to motor vehicle accidents. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rates of accidental po...

    Authors: Ella T Nkhoma, Chiehwen Ed Hsu, Victoria I Hunt and Ann Marie Harris
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:25
    Content type: Research Published on:

  20. Asthma is a common disease and appears to be increasing in prevalence. There is evidence linking air pollution, including that from road-traffic, with asthma. Road traffic is also on the increase. Routine surv...

    Authors: Elspeth C Ferguson, Ravi Maheswaran and Mark Daly
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:24
    Content type: Review Published on:

  21. Currently in the U.S. it is recommended that tuberculosis screening and treatment programs be targeted at high-risk populations. While a strategy of targeted testing and treatment of persons most likely to dev...

    Authors: Patrick K Moonan, Manuel Bayona, Teresa N Quitugua, Joseph Oppong, Denise Dunbar, Kenneth C Jost Jr, Gerry Burgess, Karan P Singh and Stephen E Weis
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:23
    Content type: Research Published on:

  23. This paper explores the geographical accessibility of health services in urban and rural areas of the South West of England, comparing two measures of geographical access and characterising the areas most remo...

    Authors: Hannah Jordan, Paul Roderick, David Martin and Sarah Barnett
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:21
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. Household-level geographic information systems (GIS) database are usually constructed using the geographic positioning system (GPS). In some research settings, GPS receivers may fail to capture accurate readin...

    Authors: Mohammad Ali, Shahid Rasool, Jin-Kyung Park, Shamoon Saeed, Rion Leon Ochiai, Qamaruddin Nizami, Camilo J Acosta and Zulfiqar Bhutta
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:20
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  25. In 1998, the World Health Organization recognized Buruli ulcer (BU), a human skin disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans (MU), as the third most prevalent mycobacterial disease. In Ghana, there have been more t...

    Authors: Alfred A Duker, Emmanuel JM Carranza and Martin Hale
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:19
    Content type: Research Published on:

  27. The aims of this study were to determine whether observed geographic variations in breast cancer incidence are random or statistically significant, whether statistically significant excesses are temporary or t...

    Authors: T Joseph Sheehan, Laurie M DeChello, Martin Kulldorff, David I Gregorio, Susan Gershman and Mary Mroszczyk
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:17
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. This paper reports on a study investigating the epidemiology of sporadic cryptosporidiosis in the North West of England and Wales using a Geographical Information System (GIS) to map location of residence of c...

    Authors: Sara Hughes, Qutub Syed, Sarah Woodhouse, Iain Lake, Keith Osborn, Rachel M Chalmers and Paul R Hunter
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:15
    Content type: Research Published on:

  30. Complete Spatial Randomness (CSR) is the null hypothesis employed by many statistical tests for spatial pattern, such as local cluster or boundary analysis. CSR is however not a relevant null hypothesis for hi...

    Authors: Pierre Goovaerts and Geoffrey M Jacquez
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:14
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  33. Giardia lamblia is the most frequently identified human intestinal parasite in Canada with prevalence estimates of 4–10%. However, infection rates vary by geographical area and localized 'pockets' of high or low ...

    Authors: Agricola Odoi, S Wayne Martin, Pascal Michel, Dean Middleton, John Holt and Jeff Wilson
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:11
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. 'Traffic light' (red-yellow-green) maps are potentially powerful tools for 'at a glance' problem detection, for optimising resource allocation/reallocation, setting priorities, and targeting interventions to a...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos and Guy Picton Phillipps
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:10
    Content type: Research Published on:

  35. This study characterized Anopheles mosquito larval habitats in relation to ecological attributes about the habitat and community-level drainage potential, and investigated whether agricultural activities within o...

    Authors: Joseph Keating, Kate Macintyre, Charles M Mbogo, John I Githure and John C Beier
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. The outbreak of West Nile Virus (WNV) in and around Chicago in 2002 included over 680 cases of human illness caused by the virus within this region. The notable clustering of the cases in two well-defined area...

    Authors: Marilyn O Ruiz, Carmen Tedesco, Thomas J McTighe, Connie Austin and Uriel Kitron
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. Maps are increasingly used to visualize and analyze data, yet the spatial ramifications of data structure are rarely considered. Data are subject to transformations made throughout the research process and the...

    Authors: Wesley L James, Ronald E Cossman, Jeralynn S Cossman, Carol Campbell and Troy Blanchard
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:7
    Content type: Review Published on:

  38. The purposes of this study were to map overall malaria incidence rates from 1989 through 1999 for villages in Belize; to assess the seasonal distribution of malaria incidence by region; and to correlate malari...

    Authors: Shilpa Hakre, Penny Masuoka, Errol Vanzie and Donald R Roberts
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:6
    Content type: Research Published on:

  39. Health studies sometimes rely on postal code location as a proxy for the location of residence. This study compares the postal code location to that of the street address using a database from the Alberta Prov...

    Authors: C Jennifer D Bow, Nigel M Waters, Peter D Faris, Judy E Seidel, P Diane Galbraith, Merril L Knudtson and William A Ghali
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:5
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  40. The literature suggests that the distribution of female breast cancer mortality demonstrates spatial concentration. There remains a lack of studies on how the mortality burden may impact racial groups across s...

    Authors: Chiehwen Ed Hsu, Holly Jacobson and Francisco Soto Mas
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. The term "Geographic Information Systems" (GIS) has been added to MeSH in 2003, a step reflecting the importance and growing use of GIS in health and healthcare research and practices. GIS have much more to of...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:1
    Content type: Review Published on:

  44. Public health applications using geographic information system (GIS) technology are steadily increasing. Many of these rely on the ability to locate where people live with respect to areas of exposure from env...

    Authors: Michael R Cayo and Thomas O Talbot
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2003 2:10
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  45. Many different test statistics have been proposed to test for spatial clustering. Some of these statistics have been widely used in various applications. In this paper, we use an existing collection of 1,220,0...

    Authors: Changhong Song and Martin Kulldorff
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2003 2:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. The investigation of potential exposure to anthrax spores in a Trenton, New Jersey, mail-processing facility required rapid assessment of informatics needs and adaptation of existing informatics tools to new p...

    Authors: Juan Carlos Zubieta, Ric Skinner and Andrew G Dean
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2003 2:8
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  47. Standardized mortality ratios are used to identify geographic areas with higher or lower mortality than expected. This article examines geographic disparity in premature mortality in Ontario, Canada, at three ...

    Authors: Chris A Altmayer, Brian G Hutchison, Vicki L Torrance-Rynard, Jeremiah Hurley, Stephen Birch and John D Eyles
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2003 2:7
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. Giardia is the most frequently identified intestinal parasite in North America. Although information on geographical distribution of giardiasis is critical in identifying communities at high risk, little has been...

    Authors: Agricola Odoi, S Wayne Martin, Pascal Michel, John Holt, Dean Middleton and Jeff Wilson
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2003 2:5
    Content type: Research Published on:
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