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  1. 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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  2. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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:

  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. '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:

  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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:

  12. Although prostate cancer-related incidence and mortality have declined recently, striking racial/ethnic differences persist in the United States. Visualizing and modelling temporal trends of prostate cancer la...

    Authors: Pierre Goovaerts and Hong Xiao
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:63
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  13. Health professionals and authorities strive to cope with heterogeneous data, services, and statistical models to support decision making on public health. Sophisticated analysis and distributed processing capa...

    Authors: Pau Dominkovics, Carlos Granell, Antoni Pérez-Navarro, Martí Casals, Àngels Orcau and Joan A Caylà
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:62
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  14. Many sub-Saharan countries are confronted with persistently high levels of infant mortality because of the impact of a range of biological and social determinants. In particular, infant mortality has increased...

    Authors: Benn KD Sartorius, Kurt Sartorius, Tobias F Chirwa and Sharon Fonn
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:61
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  15. Characterizing the interface between wild and domestic animal populations is increasingly recognized as essential in the context of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) that are transmitted by wildlife. More sp...

    Authors: Julien Cappelle, Nicolas Gaidet, Samuel A Iverson, John Y Takekawa, Scott H Newman, Bouba Fofana and Marius Gilbert
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:60
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  16. Various studies show major regional differences in the prevalence of cardio-vascular disease morbidity and mortality, both in Europe and within European countries. In Austria, these differences are documented ...

    Authors: Katharina V Stein, Anita Rieder and Thomas E Dorner
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:59
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  17. Many Canadian population health studies, including those focusing on the relationship between exposure to air pollution and health, have operationalized neighbourhoods at the census tract scale. At the same ti...

    Authors: Marie-Pierre Parenteau and Michael C Sawada
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:58
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  18. World maps are among the most effective ways to convey public health messages such as recommended vaccinations, but creating a useful and valid map requires careful deliberation. The changing epidemiology of h...

    Authors: Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah, Kathryn H Jacobsen and Steven T Wiersma
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:57
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  19. Respondent-driven sampling(RDS) is an increasingly widely used variant of a link tracing design for recruiting hidden populations. The role of the spatial distribution of the target population has not been rob...

    Authors: Nicky McCreesh, Lisa G Johnston, Andrew Copas, Pam Sonnenberg, Janet Seeley, Richard J Hayes, Simon DW Frost and Richard G White
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:56
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  20. Drowning is a constant global problem which claims approximately half a million victims worldwide each year, whereas the number of near-drowning victims is considerably higher. Public health strategies to redu...

    Authors: David A Groneberg, Ute Schilling, Cristian Scutaru, Stefanie Uibel, Simona Zitnik, Daniel Mueller, Doris Klingelhoefer and Beatrix Kloft
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:55
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  21. Disease maps of crude rates from routinely collected health data indexed at a small geographical resolution pose specific statistical problems due to the sparse nature of the data. Spatial smoothers allow area...

    Authors: Kristen H Hampton, Marc L Serre, Dionne C Gesink, Christopher D Pilcher and William C Miller
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:54
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  22. For many years, the detection of clusters has been of great public health interest. Several detection methods have been developed, the most famous of which is the circular scan method. The present study, which...

    Authors: Stéphanie Goujon-Bellec, Claire Demoury, Aurélie Guyot-Goubin, Denis Hémon and Jacqueline Clavel
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:53
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  24. Geographically weighted Poisson regression (GWPR) was applied to the relation between cervical cancer disease incidence rates in England and socio-economic deprivation, social status and family structure covar...

    Authors: Edith MY Cheng, Peter M Atkinson and Arjan K Shahani
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:51
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  25. Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a major public health problem caused by various factors. It is essential to systematically investigate the epidemiological and, in particular, the ecological factors of D...

    Authors: Yunxia Liu, Shiwen Jiang, Yanxun Liu, Rui Wang, Xiao LI, Zhongshang Yuan, Lixia Wang and Fuzhong Xue
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:50
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  26. The continuing spread of the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus in Europe is of increasing public health concern due to the potential risk of new outbreaks of exotic vector-borne diseases that this species can...

    Authors: Markus Neteler, David Roiz, Duccio Rocchini, Cristina Castellani and Annapaola Rizzoli
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:49
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  27. Protection of public health from rabies is informed by the analysis of surveillance data from human and animal populations. In Canada, public health, agricultural and wildlife agencies at the provincial and fe...

    Authors: Erin E Rees, Bruno Gendron, Frédérick Lelièvre, Nathalie Coté and Denise Bélanger
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:48
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  28. Kulldorff's spatial scan statistic for aggregated area maps searches for clusters of cases without specifying their size (number of areas) or geographic location in advance. Their statistical significance is t...

    Authors: Alexandre CL Almeida, Anderson R Duarte, Luiz H Duczmal, Fernando LP Oliveira and Ricardo HC Takahashi
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:47
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  29. People who die from heart disease at home before any attempt at transport has been made may represent missed opportunities for life-saving medical intervention. In this study, we undertook a point-pattern spat...

    Authors: Elizabeth Barnett Pathak, Steven Reader, Jean Paul Tanner and Michele L Casper
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:46
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  30. This paper covers the use of depth sensors such as Microsoft Kinect and ASUS Xtion to provide a natural user interface (NUI) for controlling 3-D (three-dimensional) virtual globes such as Google Earth (includi...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos, Bryan J Blanchard, Cory Walker, Julio Montero, Aalap Tripathy and Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:45
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  31. This paper analyses the relationship between public perceptions of access to general practitioners (GPs) surgeries and hospitals against health status, car ownership and geographic distance. In so doing it exp...

    Authors: Alexis J Comber, Chris Brunsdon and Robert Radburn
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:44
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  32. The majority of studies of the local food environment in relation to obesity risk have been conducted in the US, UK, and Australia. The evidence remains limited to western societies. The aim of this paper is t...

    Authors: Tomoya Hanibuchi, Katsunori Kondo, Tomoki Nakaya, Miyo Nakade, Toshiyuki Ojima, Hiroshi Hirai and Ichiro Kawachi
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:43
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  33. Heatwaves present a significant health risk and the hazard is likely to escalate with the increased future temperatures presently predicted by climate change models. The impact of heatwaves is often felt stron...

    Authors: Charlie J Tomlinson, Lee Chapman, John E Thornes and Christopher J Baker
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:42
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  34. This study investigates the impact of tubewell user density on cholera and shigellosis events in Matlab, Bangladesh between 2002 and 2004. Household-level demographic, health, and water infrastructure data wer...

    Authors: Margaret Carrel, Veronica Escamilla, Jane Messina, Sophia Giebultowicz, Jennifer Winston, Mohammad Yunus, PKim Streatfield and Michael Emch
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:41
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  36. Every year, many deaths or health problems are directly linked to heat waves. Consequently, numerous jurisdictions around the world have developed intervention plans that are employed during extreme heat event...

    Authors: Steve Toutant, Pierre Gosselin, Diane Bélanger, Ray Bustinza and Sonia Rivest
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:39
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  38. The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between residential exposure to fast-food entrées, using two measures of potential spatial access: proximity (distance to the nearest location) and co...

    Authors: Joseph R Sharkey, Cassandra M Johnson, Wesley R Dean and Scott A Horel
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:37
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  39. The deprived physical environments present in slums are well-known to have adverse health effects on their residents. However, little is known about the health effects of the social environments in slums. More...

    Authors: Oliver Gruebner, MdMobarak H Khan, Sven Lautenbach, Daniel Müller, Alexander Kraemer, Tobia Lakes and Patrick Hostert
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:36
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  40. Geographic profiling is a statistical tool originally developed in criminology to prioritise large lists of suspects in cases of serial crime. Here, we use two data sets - one historical and one modern - to sh...

    Authors: Steven C Le Comber, DKim Rossmo, Ali N Hassan, Douglas O Fuller and John C Beier
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:35
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  41. Trends in food retailing associated with the consolidation of smaller-format retailers into fewer, larger-format supercentres have left some rural areas with fewer sources of nutritious, affordable food. Acces...

    Authors: Richard C Sadler, Jason A Gilliland and Godwin Arku
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:34
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  42. A growing body of research emphasizes the importance of contextual factors on health outcomes. Using postcode sector data for Scotland (UK), this study tests the hypothesis of spatial heterogeneity in the rela...

    Authors: Sanjeev Sridharan, Julia Koschinsky and Jeremy J Walker
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:33
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  43. Epidemiological studies to assess risk factors for breast cancer often do not differentiate between different types of breast cancers. We applied a general linear model to determine whether data from the Surve...

    Authors: Sophie St-Hilaire, Rakesh Mandal, Amy Commendador, Sylvio Mannel and DeWayne Derryberry
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:32
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  44. Parks provide ideal open spaces for leisure-time physical activity and important venues to promote physical activity. The spatial configuration of parks, the number of parks and their spatial distribution acro...

    Authors: Xingyou Zhang, Hua Lu and James B Holt
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:31
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  45. Alcohol related violence continues to be a major public health problem in the United States. In particular, there is substantial evidence of an association between alcohol outlets and assault. However, because...

    Authors: Tony H Grubesic and William Alex Pridemore
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:30
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. The Prospective Space-Time scan statistic (PST) is widely used for the evaluation of space-time clusters of point event data. Usually a window of cylindrical shape is employed, with a circular or elliptical ba...

    Authors: Luiz H Duczmal, Gladston JP Moreira, Denise Burgarelli, Ricardo HC Takahashi, Flávia CO Magalhães and Emerson C Bodevan
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:29
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  47. The severity of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa varies between and within provinces, with differences noted even at the suburban scale. We investigated the geographical variability of HIV infection in ru...

    Authors: Handan Wand, Claire Whitaker and Gita Ramjee
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:28
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  48. Authors: Rosa Puigpinós-Riera, Marc Marí-Dell'Olmo, Mercè Gotsens, Carme Borrell, Gemma Serral, Carlos Ascaso, Montse Calvo, Antonio Daponte, Felicitas M Domínguez-Berjón, Santiago Esnaola, Ana Gandarillas, Gonzalo López-Abente, Carmen M Martos, Miguel A Martínez-Beneito, Agustín Montes-Martínez, Imanol Montoya…
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:27
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    The original article was published in International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:6

  49. Little is known about the effects of geographic variation on outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). The present study investigated the relationship between population density, time between emergenc...

    Authors: Hideo Yasunaga, Hiroaki Miyata, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Seizan Tanabe, Manabu Akahane, Toshio Ogawa, Soichi Koike and Tomoaki Imamura
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:26
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  50. The Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease (HFMD) is the most common infectious disease in China, its total incidence being around 500,000 ~1,000,000 cases per year. The composite space-time disease variation is the result o...

    Authors: Jin-feng Wang, Yan-Sha Guo, George Christakos, Wei-Zhong Yang, Yi-Lan Liao, Zhong-Jie LI, Xiao-Zhou LI, Sheng-Jie Lai and Hong-Yan Chen
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:25
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