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  1. 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
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  2. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. 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
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  4. 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
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  5. 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
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  6. 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
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  7. 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
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  8. 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
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  9. 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
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  10. 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
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  11. 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
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  12. 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
    Content type: Review Published on:

  13. 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
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  14. 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
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  15. 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
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  16. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  17. 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
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  18. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  19. 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
    Content type: Review Published on:

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  20. 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
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  21. 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
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  22. 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
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  23. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. 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
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  25. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  26. 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
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  27. 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
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  28. 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
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  29. 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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  30. Large geographical variations in the intensity of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa call for geographically targeted resource allocation where burdens are greatest. However, data available for mapping the...

    Authors: Diego F. Cuadros, Benn Sartorius, Chris Hall, Adam Akullian, Till Bärnighausen and Frank Tanser
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:27
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  31. Health behaviors are shaped by the context in which people live. However, documenting environmental context has remained a challenge. More specifically, direct observation techniques require large investments ...

    Authors: Erica Twardzik, Cathy Antonakos, Ross Baiers, Tamara Dubowitz, Philippa Clarke and Natalie Colabianchi
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:26
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  32. A PubMed query run in June 2018 using the keyword ‘blockchain’ retrieved 40 indexed papers, a reflection of the growing interest in blockchain among the medical and healthcare research and practice communities...

    Authors: Maged N. Kamel Boulos, James T. Wilson and Kevin A. Clauson
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:25
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  33. Children’s independent mobility (CIM) is an important contributor to physical activity and health in children. However, in the last 20 years CIM has significantly decreased. To develop effective intervention ...

    Authors: Isabel Marzi, Yolanda Demetriou and Anne Kerstin Reimers
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:24
    Content type: Review Published on:

  34. To assess spatial accessibility measures to on-premise alcohol outlets at census block, census tract, county, and state levels for the United States.

    Authors: Hua Lu, Xingyou Zhang, James B. Holt, Dafna Kanny and Janet B. Croft
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:23
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  35. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is an infection endemic in Chile and Argentina, caused by Andes hantavirus (ANDV). The rodent Oligoryzomys longicaudatus is suggested as the main reservoir, although several ot...

    Authors: Francisca Astorga, Luis E. Escobar, Daniela Poo-Muñoz, Joaquin Escobar-Dodero, Sylvia Rojas-Hucks, Mario Alvarado-Rybak, Melanie Duclos, Daniel Romero-Alvarez, Blanca E. Molina-Burgos, Alexandra Peñafiel-Ricaurte, Frederick Toro, Francisco T. Peña-Gómez and A. Townsend Peterson
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:22
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. Identifying fine-scale spatial patterns of disease is essential for effective disease control and elimination programmes. In low resource areas without formal addresses, novel strategies are needed to locate ...

    Authors: Kimberly M. Fornace, Henry Surendra, Tommy Rowel Abidin, Ralph Reyes, Maria L. M. Macalinao, Gillian Stresman, Jennifer Luchavez, Riris A. Ahmad, Supargiyono Supargiyono, Fe Espino, Chris J. Drakeley and Jackie Cook
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:21
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  37. Spatial scan statistics have been used for the identification of geographic clusters of elevated numbers of cases of a condition such as disease outbreaks. These statistics accompanied by the appropriate distr...

    Authors: Iram Usman and Rhonda J. Rosychuk
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:20
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  38. The relationships between food environments and dietary intake have been assessed via a range of methodologically diverse measures of spatial exposure to food outlets, resulting in a largely inconclusive body ...

    Authors: Alexia Bivoltsis, Eleanor Cervigni, Gina Trapp, Matthew Knuiman, Paula Hooper and Gina Leslie Ambrosini
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:19
    Content type: Review Published on:

  39. Air pollutants have been associated with various adverse health effects, including increased rates of hospital admissions and emergency room visits. Although numerous time-series studies and case-crossover stu...

    Authors: Eun-Hye Yoo, Patrick Brown and Youngseob Eum
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:18
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. Identifying elements of one’s environment—observable and unobservable—that contribute to chronic stress including the perception of comfort and discomfort associated with different settings, presents many meth...

    Authors: Benjamin W. Chrisinger and Abby C. King
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:17
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  41. The objective evaluation of the physical environmental characteristics (e.g. speed limit, cycling infrastructure) along adolescents’ actual cycling routes remains understudied, although it may provide importan...

    Authors: Hannah Verhoeven, Linde Van Hecke, Delfien Van Dyck, Tim Baert, Nico Van de Weghe, Peter Clarys, Benedicte Deforche and Jelle Van Cauwenberg
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:16
    Content type: Research Published on:

  42. The increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events, which are potentially associated with climate change in the near future, highlights the importance of heat health risk assessment, a signific...

    Authors: Qian Chen, Mingjun Ding, Xuchao Yang, Kejia Hu and Jiaguo Qi
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:15
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. Commercial geospatial data resources are frequently used to understand healthcare utilisation. Although there is widespread evidence of a digital divide for other digital resources and infra-structure, it is u...

    Authors: Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi, Nicola Wardrop, Ademola Adewole, Mair L. H. Thomas and Jim Wright
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:14
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  44. Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) has demonstrated high diagnostic accuracy for detection of coronary artery stenosis, and healthcare providers can detect coronary artery disease in earlier stages...

    Authors: Hideaki Kawaguchi, Soichi Koike, Ryota Sakurai and Kazuhiko Ohe
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

  45. Conducting surveys in low- and middle-income countries is often challenging because many areas lack a complete sampling frame, have outdated census information, or have limited data available for designing and...

    Authors: Robert F. Chew, Safaa Amer, Kasey Jones, Jennifer Unangst, James Cajka, Justine Allpress and Mark Bruhn
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:12
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  46. Advancement in location-aware technologies, and information and communication technology in the past decades has furthered our knowledge of the interaction between human activities and the built environment. A...

    Authors: Xiaolu Zhou and Dongying Li
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:11
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. Maps of disease rates produced without careful consideration of the underlying population distribution may be unreliable due to the well-known small numbers problem. Smoothing methods such as Kernel Density Es...

    Authors: Warangkana Ruckthongsook, Chetan Tiwari, Joseph R. Oppong and Prathiba Natesan
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:10
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  48. Dengue fever is a vector-borne infectious disease that is transmitted by contact between vector mosquitoes and susceptible hosts. The literature has addressed the issue on quantifying the effect of individual ...

    Authors: Tzai-Hung Wen, Ching-Shun Hsu and Ming-Che Hu
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:9
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  49. Millions of people worldwide are exposed to deadly infectious diseases on a regular basis. Breaking news of the Zika outbreak for instance, made it to the main media titles internationally. Perceiving disease ...

    Authors: Shaheen A. Abdulkareem, Ellen-Wien Augustijn, Yaseen T. Mustafa and Tatiana Filatova
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:8
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  50. Undernutrition among children under 5 years of age continues to be a public health challenge in many low- and middle-income countries and can lead to growth stunting. Infectious diseases may also affect child ...

    Authors: Benjamin Amoah, Emanuele Giorgi, Daniel J. Heyes, Stef van Burren and Peter John Diggle
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2018 17:7
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