Kamel Boulos, Maged N. Kwan, Mei-Po El Emam, Khaled Chung, Ada Lai-Ling Gao, Song Richardson, Douglas B.
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International Journal of Health Geographics
This article provides a state-of-the-art summary of location privacy issues and geoprivacy-preserving methods in public health interventions and health research involving disaggregate geographic data about individuals. Synthetic data generation (from real data using machine learning) is discussed in detail as a promising privacy-preserving approach...
Shepherd, Harry E. R. Atherden, Florence S. Chan, Ho Man Theophilus Loveridge, Alexandra Tatem, Andrew J.
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International Journal of Health Geographics
BackgroundSince early March 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic across the United Kingdom has led to a range of social distancing policies, which resulted in changes to mobility across different regions. An understanding of how these policies impacted travel patterns over time and at different spatial scales is important for designing effective strategies,...
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...
Wu, Chih-Chieh Chu, Yun-Hsuan Shete, Sanjay Chen, Chien-Hsiun
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International Journal of Health Geographics
BackgroundThe presence of considerable spatial variability in incidence intensity suggests that risk factors are unevenly distributed in space and influence the geographical disease incidence distribution and pattern. As most human common diseases that challenge investigators are complex traits and as more factors associated with increased risk are...
Urbano, Teresa Vinceti, Marco Wise, Lauren A. Filippini, Tommaso
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International Journal of Health Geographics
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women and the second leading cause of cancer death overall. Besides genetic, reproductive, and hormonal factors involved in disease onset and progression, greater attention has focused recently on the etiologic role of environmental factors, including exposure to artificial lighting such as light-at-ni...
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
BackgroundRurality 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
BackgroundDisease 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 pat...
Schmidt, Fabian Dröge-Rothaar, Arne Rienow, Andreas
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International Journal of Health Geographics
BackgroundVarious 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
