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  1. Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data are an important source of maternal, newborn, and child health as well as nutrition information for low- and middle-income countries. However, DHSs are often unavailabl...

    Authors: Emily Wilson, Elizabeth Hazel, Lois Park, Emily Carter, Lawrence H. Moulton, Rebecca Heidkamp and Jamie Perin
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2020 19:2
  2. Travel time to care is known to influence uptake of health services. Generally, pregnant women who take longer to transit to health facilities are the least likely to deliver in facilities. It is not clear if ...

    Authors: Liberty Makacha, Prestige Tatenda Makanga, Yolisa Prudence Dube, Jeffrey Bone, Khátia Munguambe, Geetanjali Katageri, Sumedha Sharma, Marianne Vidler, Esperança Sevene, Umesh Ramadurg, Umesh Charantimath, Amit Revankar and Peter von Dadelszen
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2020 19:1
  3. Worldwide, interest in research on methods to define access to healthy food at the local level has grown, given its central connection to carrying out a healthy lifestyle. Within this research domain, papers h...

    Authors: Richard C. Sadler, Ashley N. Sanders-Jackson, Josh Introne and Robyn Adams
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:31
  4. The utility of being able to spatially analyze health care data in near-real time is a growing need. However, this potential is often limited by the level of in-house geospatial expertise. One solution is to f...

    Authors: Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar, Andrew J. Curtis and Jacqueline Curtis
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:30
  5. Considerable number of indoor navigation systems has been proposed to augment people with visual impairments (VI) about their surroundings. These systems leverage several technologies, such as computer-vision,...

    Authors: Jayakanth Kunhoth, AbdelGhani Karkar, Somaya Al-Maadeed and Asma Al-Attiyah
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:29
  6. Although a preponderance of research indicates that increased income inequality negatively impacts population health, several international studies found that a greater income inequality was associated with be...

    Authors: Steven A. Cohen, Mary L. Greaney and Ann C. Klassen
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:28
  7. Spatial weight matrices play a key role in econometrics to capture spatial effects. However, these constructs are prone to clustering and can be challenging to analyse in common statistical packages such as ST...

    Authors: Sung Wook Kim, Felix Achana and Stavros Petrou
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:27
  8. GIS (Geographic Information Systems) based behavior maps are useful for visualizing and analyzing how children utilize their play spaces. However, a GIS needs accurate locational information to ensure that obs...

    Authors: Ajoke R. Onojeghuo, Candace I. J. Nykiforuk, Ana Paula Belon and Jane Hewes
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:26
  9. Decision making in the health area usually involves several factors, options and data. In addition, it should take into account technological, social and spatial aspects, among others. Decision making methodol...

    Authors: Luciana Moura Mendes de Lima, Laísa Ribeiro de Sá, Ana Flávia Uzeda dos Santos Macambira, Jordana de Almeida Nogueira, Rodrigo Pinheiro de Toledo Vianna and Ronei Marcos de Moraes
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:25
  10. Identifying and intervening on health disparities requires representative community public health data. For cities with high vacancy and transient populations, traditional methods of population estimation for ...

    Authors: Mieka Smart, Richard Sadler, Alan Harris, Zachary Buchalski, Amber Pearson and C. Debra Furr-Holden
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:24
  11. With the increase in unprecedented and unpredictable disease outbreaks due to human-driven environmental changes in recent years, we need new analytical tools to map and predict the spatial distribution of eme...

    Authors: Soushieta Jagadesh, Marine Combe, Pierre Couppié, Paul Le Turnier, Loïc Epelboin, Mathieu Nacher and Rodolphe Elie Gozlan
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:23
  12. Getting a random household sample during a survey can be expensive and very difficult especially in urban area and non-specialist. This study aimed to test an alternative method using freely available aerial i...

    Authors: Ronald R. B. Ngom Vougat, Steven Chouto, Sylvain Aoudou Doua, Rebecca Garabed, André Zoli Pagnah and Bernard Gonne
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:22
  13. It is well known that the burden caused by cancer can vary geographically, which may relate to differences in health, economics or lifestyle. However, to date, there was no comprehensive picture of how the can...

    Authors: Earl W. Duncan, Susanna M. Cramb, Joanne F. Aitken, Kerrie L. Mengersen and Peter D. Baade
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:21
  14. Road traffic noise increases the risk of mortality from ischemic heart disease (IHD). Because noise is highly localized, high resolution maps of exposures and health outcomes are key to urban planning interven...

    Authors: Ivan C. Hanigan, Timothy B. Chaston, Ben Hinze, Martine Dennekamp, Bin Jalaludin, Yohannes Kinfu and Geoffrey G. Morgan
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:20
  15. Human movement is a driver of malaria transmission and has implications for sustainable malaria control. However, little research has been done on the impact of fine-scale movement on malaria transmission and ...

    Authors: Marisa Hast, Kelly M. Searle, Mike Chaponda, James Lupiya, Jailos Lubinda, Jay Sikalima, Tamaki Kobayashi, Timothy Shields, Modest Mulenga, Justin Lessler and William J. Moss
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:19
  16. Neighbourhood environment characteristics have been found to be associated with residents’ willingness to conduct physical activity (PA). Traditional methods to assess perceived neighbourhood environment chara...

    Authors: Ruoyu Wang, Ye Liu, Yi Lu, Yuan Yuan, Jinbao Zhang, Penghua Liu and Yao Yao
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:18
  17. GPS tracking is increasingly used in health and aging research to objectively and unobtrusively assess individuals’ daily-life mobility. However, mobility is a complex concept and its thorough description base...

    Authors: Michelle Pasquale Fillekes, Eleftheria Giannouli, Eun-Kyeong Kim, Wiebren Zijlstra and Robert Weibel
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:17
  18. This is the third paper in a 3-paper series evaluating alternative models for rapidly estimating neighborhood populations using limited survey data, augmented with aerial imagery.

    Authors: Roger Hillson, Austin Coates, Joel D. Alejandre, Kathryn H. Jacobsen, Rashid Ansumana, Alfred S. Bockarie, Umaru Bangura, Joseph M. Lamin and David A. Stenger
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:16
  19. Identifying socioeconomic determinants that are associated with access to and availability of exercise facilities is fundamental to supporting physical activity engagement in urban populations, which in turn, ...

    Authors: Luis Cereijo, Pedro Gullón, Alba Cebrecos, Usama Bilal, Jose Antonio Santacruz, Hannah Badland and Manuel Franco
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:15
  20. Designing healthy, liveable cities is a global priority. Current liveability indices are aggregated at the city-level, do not reflect spatial variation within cities, and are often not aligned to policy or hea...

    Authors: Carl Higgs, Hannah Badland, Koen Simons, Luke D. Knibbs and Billie Giles-Corti
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:14
  21. The increasing prevalence of obesity is a major public health problem in many countries. Built environment factors are known to be associated with obesity, which is an important risk factor for type 2 diabetes...

    Authors: Maximilian Präger, Christoph Kurz, Julian Böhm, Michael Laxy and Werner Maier
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:13
  22. Environmental exposures are related to the risk of some types of cancer, and children are the most vulnerable group of people. This study seeks to present the methodological approaches used in the papers of ou...

    Authors: Javier García-Pérez, Diana Gómez-Barroso, Ibon Tamayo-Uria and Rebeca Ramis
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:12
  23. Four wild polio-virus cases were reported in Borno State, Nigeria 2016, 1 year after Nigeria had been removed from the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organization. Resulting from Nigeria’s...

    Authors: Jeff Higgins, Usman Adamu, Kehinde Adewara, Adeshina Aladeshawe, Aron Aregay, Inuwa Barau, Andrew Berens, Omotayo Bolu, Nina Dutton, Nnaemeka Iduma, Bryant Jones, Brian Kaplan, Sule Meleh, Melton Musa, Gatei wa Nganda, Vincent Seaman…
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:11
  24. Neighborhood environments have been regularly associated with the weight status. Although the evidence is mostly limited to adults residing in western urban settings, the weight status of older adults living i...

    Authors: Kenta Okuyama, Takafumi Abe, Tsuyoshi Hamano, Miwako Takeda, Kristina Sundquist, Jan Sundquist and Toru Nabika
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:10
  25. Tick-borne disease is the result of spillover of pathogens into the human population. Traditionally, literature has focused on characterization of tick-borne disease pathogens and ticks in their sylvatic cycle...

    Authors: W. Tanner Porter, Peter J. Motyka, Julie Wachara, Zachary A. Barrand, Zahraa Hmood, Marya McLaughlin, Kelsey Pemberton and Nathan C. Nieto
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:9
  26. Little is known about the role of geographic access to inpatient palliative and end of life care (PEoLC) facilities in place of death and how geographic access varies by settlement (urban and rural). This stud...

    Authors: Emeka Chukwusa, Julia Verne, Giovanna Polato, Ros Taylor, Irene J Higginson and Wei Gao
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:8
  27. The moulding together of artificial intelligence (AI) and the geographic/geographic information systems (GIS) dimension creates GeoAI. There is an emerging role for GeoAI in health and healthcare, as location ...

    Authors: Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Guochao Peng and Trang VoPham
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:7
  28. All analyses of spatially aggregated data are vulnerable to the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), which describes the sensitivity of analytical results to the arbitrary choice of spatial aggregation unit a...

    Authors: M. Tuson, M. Yap, M. R. Kok, K. Murray, B. Turlach and D. Whyatt
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:6
  29. Developing countries, such as India, are experiencing rapid urbanization, which may have a major impact on the environment: including worsening air and water quality, noise and the problems of waste disposal. ...

    Authors: Mohan Thanikachalam, Christina H. Fuller, Kevin J. Lane, Jahnavi Sunderarajan, Vijayakumar Harivanzan, Doug Brugge and Sadagopan Thanikachalam
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:5
  30. Active travel for utilitarian purposes contributes to total physical activity and may help counter the obesity epidemic. However, the evidence linking active travel and individual-level body weight is equivoca...

    Authors: Hui Luan, Dana Ramsay and Daniel Fuller
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:4
  31. In low and middle-income countries (LMIC), the total and LDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels of residents of urban areas are reported to be higher than those of rural areas. This may be due to differences ...

    Authors: Rosa de Groot, Jody C. Hoenink, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Nicole R. den Braver, Maria G. M. Pinho, Darshan Brassinga, Femmeke J. Prinsze, Tiffany C. Timmer, Wim L. A. M. de Kort, Johannes Brug, Katja van den Hurk and Jeroen Lakerveld
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:3
  32. Over a third of the Scottish population do not meet physical activity (PA) recommendations, with a greater proportion of those from disadvantaged areas not meeting recommended levels. There is a great need for...

    Authors: Laura Macdonald
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:2
  33. A growing number of publications report variation in the distribution of cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRFs) at different geographic scales. A review of these variations may help inform policy and health serv...

    Authors: Renin Toms, Andrew Bonney, Darren J. Mayne, Xiaoqi Feng and Ramya Walsan
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2019 18:1
  34. Waterborne diseases are one of the leading causes of mortality in developing countries, and diarrhea alone is responsible for over 1.5 million deaths annually. Such waterborne illnesses most often affect those...

    Authors: Stuart E. Hamilton, John Talbot and Carl Flint
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:44
  35. A growing number of studies observe associations between the amount of green space around a mother’s home and positive birth outcomes; however, the robustness of this association and potential pathways of acti...

    Authors: Leanne Cusack, Hind Sbihi, Andrew Larkin, Angela Chow, Jeffrey R. Brook, Theo Moraes, Piush J. Mandhane, Allan B. Becker, Meghan B. Azad, Padmaja Subbarao, Anita Kozyrskyj, Tim K. Takaro, Malcolm R. Sears, Stuart E. Turvey and Perry Hystad
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:43
  36. Detecting the variation of health indicators across similar areas or peer geographies is often useful if the spatial units are socially and economically meaningful, so that there is a degree of homogeneity in ...

    Authors: Ludovico Pinzari, Soumya Mazumdar and Federico Girosi
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:42
  37. The bacteria of the group Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. are the etiological agents of Lyme borreliosis in humans, transmitted by bites of ticks. Improvement of control measures requires a solid framework of the envir...

    Authors: Agustín Estrada-Peña, Sally Cutler, Aleksandar Potkonjak, Muriel Vassier-Tussaut, Wim Van Bortel, Hervé Zeller, Natalia Fernández-Ruiz and Andrei Daniel Mihalca
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:41
  38. Device-collected data from GPS and accelerometers for identifying active travel behaviors have dramatically changed research methods in transportation planning and public health. Automated algorithms have help...

    Authors: Mingyu Kang, Anne V. Moudon, Philip M. Hurvitz and Brian E. Saelens
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:40
  39. India has the largest number of under-five deaths globally, and large variations in under-five mortality persist between states and districts. Relationships between under-five mortality and numerous socioecono...

    Authors: Akansha Singh and Bruno Masquelier
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:39
  40. Zoonotic diseases account for a substantial portion of infectious disease outbreaks and burden on public health programs to maintain surveillance and preventative measures. Taking advantage of new modeling app...

    Authors: Rachel Beard, Elizabeth Wentz and Matthew Scotch
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:38

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  41. Lack of accurate data on the distribution of sub-national populations in low- and middle-income countries impairs planning, monitoring, and evaluation of interventions. Novel, low-cost methods to develop unbia...

    Authors: Bradley H. Wagenaar, Orvalho Augusto, Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir, Adam Akullian, Nelia Manaca, Falume Chale, Alberto Muanido, Alfredo Covele, Cathy Michel, Sarah Gimbel, Tyler Radford, Blake Girardot and Kenneth Sherr
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:37
  42. The geographical accessibility of health services is an important issue especially in developing countries and even more for those sharing a border as for Haiti and the Dominican Republic. During the last 2 de...

    Authors: Dominique Mathon, Philippe Apparicio and Ugo Lachapelle
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:36
  43. Usutu virus (USUV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus, reported in many countries of Africa and Europe, with an increasing spatial distribution and host range. Recent outbreaks leading to regional declines of Europea...

    Authors: Yanchao Cheng, Nils Benjamin Tjaden, Anja Jaeschke, Renke Lühken, Ute Ziegler, Stephanie Margarete Thomas and Carl Beierkuhnlein
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:35
  44. HLA genes are the most polymorphic of the human genome and have distinct allelic frequencies in populations of different geographical regions of the world, serving as genetic markers in ancestry studies. In ad...

    Authors: Juliano André Boquett, Marcelo Zagonel-Oliveira, Luis Fernando Jobim, Mariana Jobim, Luiz Gonzaga Jr., Maurício Roberto Veronez, Nelson Jurandi Rosa Fagundes and Lavínia Schüler-Faccini
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:34
  45. Two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) methods that account for multiple transportation modes provide more realistic accessibility representation than single-mode methods. However, the use of the impedance c...

    Authors: Yan Lin, Neng Wan, Sagert Sheets, Xi Gong and Angela Davies
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:33
  46. Patient mobility can be defined as a patient’s movement or utilization of a health care service located in a place or region other than the patient’s place of residence. Mobility provides freedom to patients t...

    Authors: Caglar Koylu, Selman Delil, Diansheng Guo and Rahmi Nurhan Celik
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:32
  47. There is a growing recognition of the health benefits of the natural environment. Whilst domestic gardens account for a significant proportion of greenspace in urban areas, few studies, and no population level...

    Authors: Paul Brindley, Anna Jorgensen and Ravi Maheswaran
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:31
  48. Health data usually has missing or incomplete location information, which impacts the quality of research. Geoimputation methods are used by health professionals to increase the spatial resolution of address i...

    Authors: Naci Dilekli, Amanda E. Janitz, Janis E. Campbell and Kirsten M. de Beurs
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:30
  49. The built environment health promotion has attracted notable attention across a wide spectrum of health-related research over the past decade. However, the results about the contextual effects on health and PA...

    Authors: Tiina E. Laatikainen, Kamyar Hasanzadeh and Marketta Kyttä
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:29
  50. Human mobility is fundamental to understanding global issues in the health and social sciences such as disease spread and displacements from disasters and conflicts. Detailed mobility data across spatial and t...

    Authors: Nick Warren Ruktanonchai, Corrine Warren Ruktanonchai, Jessica Rhona Floyd and Andrew J. Tatem
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:28

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