Gao, Fei languille, Clara karzazi, Khalil Guhl, Mélanie Boukebous, Baptiste Deguen, Séverine
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International Journal of Health Geographics
BackgroundHealthcare accessibility, a key public health issue, includes potential (spatial accessibility) and realized access (healthcare utilization) dimensions. Moreover, the assessment of healthcare service potential access and utilization should take into account the care provided by primary and secondary services. Previous studies on the relat...
Schmidt, Fabian Dröge-Rothaar, Arne Rienow, Andreas
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International Journal of Health Geographics
Kanamori, Mariko Hanazato, Masamichi Takagi, Daisuke Kondo, Katsunori Ojima, Toshiyuki Amemiya, Airi Kondo, Naoki
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International Journal of Health Geographics
Background Rurality can reflect many aspects of the community, including community characteristics that may be associated with mental health. In this study, we focused on geographical units to address multiple layers of a rural environment. By evaluating rurality at both the municipality and neighborhood (i.e., a smaller unit within a municipality)...
Bihrmann, Kristine Gislason, Gunnar Larsen, Mogens Lytken Ersbøll, Annette Kjær
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International Journal of Health Geographics
Background Disease mapping aims at identifying geographic patterns in disease. This may provide a better understanding of disease aetiology and risk factors as well as enable targeted prevention and allocation of resources. Joint mapping of multiple diseases may lead to improved insights since e.g. similarities and differences between geographic pa...
Schmidt, Fabian Dröge-Rothaar, Arne Rienow, Andreas
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International Journal of Health Geographics
Background Various applications have been developed worldwide to contain and to combat the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this context, spatial information is always of great significance. The aim of this study is to describe the development of a Web GIS based on open source products for the collection and analysis of COVID-19 cases...
Beard, Rachel Wentz, Elizabeth Scotch, Matthew
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International Journal of Health Geographics
Carter, Emily D. Munos, Melinda K.
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International Journal of Health Geographics
Background Geographic proximity is often used to link household and health provider data to estimate effective coverage of health interventions. Existing household surveys often provide displaced data on the central point within household clusters rather than household location. This may introduce error into analyses based on the distance between h...
Hooper, Paula Boulange, Claire Arciniegas, Gustavo Foster, Sarah Bolleter, Julian Pettit, Chris
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International Journal of Health Geographics
Background There is consensus that planning professionals need clearer guidance on the features that are likely to produce optimal community-wide health benefits. However, much of this evidence resides in academic literature and not in tools accessible to the diverse group of professionals shaping our cities. Incorporating health-related metrics in...
Whitehead, Jesse Smith, Melody Anderson, Yvonne Zhang, Yijun Wu, Stephanie Maharaj, Shreya Donnellan, Niamh
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International Journal of Health Geographics
Background Geographic information systems (GIS) are often used to examine the association between both physical activity and nutrition environments, and children’s health. It is often assumed that geospatial datasets are accurate and complete. Furthermore, GIS datasets regularly lack metadata on the temporal specificity. Data is usually provided ‘a...
Zhang, Ru Zhang, Chun-Qing Lai, Poh Chin Cheng, Wei Schüz, Benjamin Kwan, Mei-Po
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International Journal of Health Geographics
Background Urban parks are critical environmental resources in which adolescents engage in physical activity (PA). Evidence on the associations between park environmental characteristics and park-based PA in adolescents is mixed, particularly for high-density cities. Evidence is also lacking concerning the moderating role of neighbourhood socioecon...
