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  1. Oral rabies vaccination programs have been implemented to control the spread of wildlife rabies in the United States. However, current surveillance systems are inadequate for the efficient management and evalu...

    Authors: Jesse D Blanton, Arie Manangan, Jamie Manangan, Cathleen A Hanlon, Dennis Slate and Charles E Rupprecht
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:47
  2. Geographic regions are often routinely monitored to identify areas with excess cases of disease. Further epidemiological investigations can be targeted to areas with higher disease rates than expected. Surveil...

    Authors: Rhonda J Rosychuk
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:46
  3. Disease maps can serve to display incidence rates geographically, to inform on public health provision about the success or failure of interventions, and to make hypothesis or to provide evidences concerning d...

    Authors: Mohammad Ali, Pierre Goovaerts, Nushrat Nazia, M Zahirul Haq, Mohammad Yunus and Michael Emch
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:45
  4. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can provide valuable insight into patterns of human activity. Online spatial display applications, such as Google Earth, can democratise this information by disseminating i...

    Authors: Andrew J Curtis, Jacqueline W Mills and Michael Leitner
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:44
  5. Cost containment typically involves rationalizing healthcare service delivery through centralization of services to achieve economies of scale. Hospitals are frequently the chosen site of cost containment and ...

    Authors: Nadine Schuurman, Robert S Fiedler, Stefan CW Grzybowski and Darrin Grund
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:43
  6. Community hospital placement is dictated by a diverse set of geographical factors and historical contingency. In the summer of 2004, a multi-organizational committee headed by the State of Michigan's Departmen...

    Authors: Joseph P Messina, Ashton M Shortridge, Richard E Groop, Pariwate Varnakovida and Mark J Finn
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:42
  7. Current malaria control initiatives aim at reducing malaria burden by half by the year 2010. Effective control requires evidence-based utilisation of resources. Characterizing spatial patterns of risk, through...

    Authors: Lawrence N Kazembe, Immo Kleinschmidt, Timothy H Holtz and Brian L Sharp
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:41
  8. An increasing number of studies use GIS estimates of car travel times to health services, without presenting any evidence that the estimates are representative of real travel times. This investigation compared...

    Authors: Robin Haynes, Andrew P Jones, Violet Sauerzapf and Hongxin Zhao
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:40
  9. A Community health assessment (CHA) involves the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in conjunction with other software to analyze health and population data and perform numerical-spatial problem solvi...

    Authors: Matthew Scotch, Bambang Parmanto, Cynthia S Gadd and Ravi K Sharma
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:39
  10. To explain the possible effects of exposure to weather conditions on population health outcomes, weather data need to be calculated at a level in space and time that is appropriate for the health data. There a...

    Authors: Ivan Hanigan, Gillian Hall and Keith BG Dear
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:38
  11. Geographical information systems (GIS) have been used mainly in understanding infectious diseases and environmental threats in health research. Here, GIS was used to examine patterns of functional disability a...

    Authors: Margaret P Moss, Matthew C Schell and R Turner Goins
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:37
  12. West Nile virus (WNV) poses a significant health risk for residents of Mississippi. Physicians and state health officials are interested in new and efficient methods for monitoring disease spread and predictin...

    Authors: William H Cooke III, Katarzyna Grala and Robert C Wallis
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:36
  13. Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading clinical manifestation of HIV infection and caseloads continue to increase in high HIV prevalence settings. TB treatment is prolonged and treatment interruption has serious ind...

    Authors: Barry Dwolatzky, Estelle Trengove, Helen Struthers, James A McIntyre and Neil A Martinson
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:34
  14. The World Health Organization has declared tuberculosis a global emergency in 1993. It has been estimated that one third of the world population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of...

    Authors: Neeraj Tiwari, CMS Adhikari, Ajoy Tewari and Vineeta Kandpal
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:33
  15. Methods for analyzing space-time variation in risk in case-control studies typically ignore residential mobility. We develop an approach for analyzing case-control data for mobile individuals and apply it to s...

    Authors: Geoffrey M Jacquez, Jaymie R Meliker, Gillian A AvRuskin, Pierre Goovaerts, Andy Kaufmann, Mark L Wilson and Jerome Nriagu
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:32
  16. To determine patterns of childhood lead exposure in a community living near a lead and zinc smelter in North Lake Macquarie, Australia between 1991 and 2002.

    Authors: Alan Willmore, Tim Sladden, Lucy Bates and Craig B Dalton
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:30
  17. Geographic patterns of cancer death rates in the U.S. have customarily been presented by county or aggregated into state economic or health service areas. Herein, we present the geographic patterns of cancer d...

    Authors: Yongping Hao, Elizabeth M Ward, Ahmedin Jemal, Linda W Pickle and Michael J Thun
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:28
  18. In this paper we analyse the Plasmodium sp. prevalence in three villages with different isolation status on the island of Bioko (Equatorial Guinea) where malaria is a hyper-endemic disease. We also describe the g...

    Authors: Ana Guerra-Neira, José M Rubio, Jesús Roche Royo, Jorge Cano Ortega, Antonio Sarrión Auñón, Pedro Berzosa Diaz and Agustín Benito LLanes
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:27
  19. Mapping spatial distributions of disease occurrence and risk can serve as a useful tool for identifying exposures of public health concern. Disease registry data are often mapped by town or county of diagnosis...

    Authors: Thomas Webster, Verónica Vieira, Janice Weinberg and Ann Aschengrau
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:26
  20. In Japan, the emergency medical system is categorized into three levels: primary, secondary, and tertiary, depending on the severity of the condition of the patient. Tertiary care centres accept patients who r...

    Authors: Makiko Miwa, Hiroyuki Kawaguchi, Hideaki Arima and Kazuo Kawahara
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:25
  21. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are powerful communication tools for public health. However, using GIS requires considerable skill and, for this reason, is sometimes limited to experts. Web-based GIS has ...

    Authors: Raoul Kamadjeu and Herman Tolentino
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:24
  22. Assessments of environmental exposure and health risks that utilize Geographic Information Systems (GIS) often make simplifying assumptions when using: (a) one or more discrete buffer distances to define the s...

    Authors: Paul A Zandbergen and Jayajit Chakraborty
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:23
  23. Area-level socioeconomic disparities have long been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Crime is an important element of the neighborhood environment inadequately investigated in the reproductive and p...

    Authors: Lynne C Messer, Jay S Kaufman, Nancy Dole, Amy Herring and Barbara A Laraia
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:22
  24. West Nile virus (WNv) has recently emerged as a health threat to the North American population. After the initial disease outbreak in New York City in 1999, WNv has spread widely and quickly across North Ameri...

    Authors: Kaoru Tachiiri, Brian Klinkenberg, Sunny Mak and Jamil Kazmi
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:21
  25. On the fringes of endemic zones climate is a major determinant of inter-annual variation in malaria incidence. Quantitative description of the space-time effect of this association has practical implications f...

    Authors: Musawenkoi LH Mabaso, Penelope Vounatsou, Stanely Midzi, Joaquim Da Silva and Thomas Smith
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:20
  26. Admissions for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSCs) are considered preventable admissions, because they are unlikely to occur when good preventive health care is received. Thus, high rates of admission...

    Authors: Lee R Mobley, Elisabeth Root, Luc Anselin, Nancy Lozano-Gracia and Julia Koschinsky
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:19
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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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