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Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the home: Can area characteristics identify at-risk communities in the Republic of Ireland?
Internationally, the majority of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests where resuscitation is attempted (OHCAs) occur in private residential locations i.e. at home. The prospect of survival for this patient group is... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - February 20, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Siobh án Masterson, Conor Teljeur, John Cullinan, Andrew W. Murphy, Conor Deasy and Akke Vellinga Tags: Research Source Type: research

Border analysis for spatial clusters
The spatial scan statistic is widely used by public health professionals in the detection of spatial clusters in inhomogeneous point process. The most popular version of the spatial scan statistic uses a circu... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - February 17, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Fernando L. P. Oliveira, Andr é L. F. Cançado, Gustavo de Souza, Gladston J. P. Moreira and Martin Kulldorff Tags: Methodology Source Type: research

Current and future distribution of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
Aedes-borne diseases as dengue, zika, chikungunya and yellow fever are an emerging problem worldwide, being transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Lack of up to date information about the distribution... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - February 14, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Els Ducheyne, Nhu Nguyen Tran Minh, Nabil Haddad, Ward Bryssinckx, Evans Buliva, Fr édéric Simard, Mamunur Rahman Malik, Johannes Charlier, Valérie De Waele, Osama Mahmoud, Muhammad Mukhtar, Ali Bouattour, Abdulhafid Hussain, Guy Hendrickx and David Ro Tags: Research Source Type: research

Factors related with public open space use among adolescents: a study using GPS and accelerometers
Low physical activity levels and high levels of sedentary time among adolescents call for population wide interventions. Public open spaces can be important locations for adolescents ’ physical activity. This s... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - January 22, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Linde Van Hecke, Hannah Verhoeven, Peter Clarys, Delfien Van Dyck, Nico Van de Weghe, Tim Baert, Benedicte Deforche and Jelle Van Cauwenberg Tags: Research Source Type: research

Spatial panorama of malaria prevalence in Africa under climate change and interventions scenarios
Malaria is highly sensitive to climatic variables and is strongly influenced by the presence of vectors in a region that further contribute to parasite development and sustained disease transmission. Mathemat... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - January 16, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Francois M. Moukam Kakmeni, Ritter Y. A. Guimapi, Frank T. Ndjomatchoua, Sansoa A. Pedro, James Mutunga and Henri E. Z. Tonnang Tags: Research Source Type: research

Measurement of the potential geographic accessibility from call to definitive care for patient with acute stroke
The World Health Organization refers to stroke, the second most frequent cause of death in the world, in terms of pandemic. Present treatments are only effective within precise time windows. Only 10% of thromb... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - January 12, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: J. Freyssenge, F. Renard, A. M. Schott, L. Derex, N. Nighoghossian, K. Tazarourte and C. El Khoury Tags: Research Source Type: research

Spatial smoothing in Bayesian models: a comparison of weights matrix specifications and their impact on inference
When analysing spatial data, it is important to account for spatial autocorrelation. In Bayesian statistics, spatial autocorrelation is commonly modelled by the intrinsic conditional autoregressive prior distr... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - December 16, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Earl W. Duncan, Nicole M. White and Kerrie Mengersen Tags: Methodology Source Type: research

Does the edge effect impact on the measure of spatial accessibility to healthcare providers?
Spatial accessibility indices are increasingly applied when investigating inequalities in health. Although most studies are making mentions of potential errors caused by the edge effect, many acknowledge havin... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - December 11, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Fei Gao, Wahida Kihal, Nolwenn Le Meur, Marc Souris and S éverine Deguen Tags: Research Source Type: research

Analysis of population-level determinants of legionellosis: spatial and geovisual methods for enhancing classification of high-risk areas
Although the incidence of legionellosis throughout North America and Europe continues to increase, public health investigations have not been able to identify a common exposure in most cases. Over 80% of cases... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - December 2, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jessie A. Gleason, Kathleen M. Ross and Rebecca D. Greeley Tags: Research Source Type: research

Accessibility of general and specialized obstetric care providers in Germany and England: an analysis of location and neonatal outcome
Health care accessibility is known to differ geographically. With this study we focused on analysing accessibility of general and specialized obstetric units in England and Germany with regard to urbanity, are... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - December 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Bauer, David A. Groneberg, Werner Maier, Roxanne Manek, Frank Louwen and D örthe Brüggmann Tags: Research Source Type: research

Mapping outdoor habitat and abnormally small newborns to develop an ambient health hazard index
The geography of where pregnant mothers live is important for understanding outdoor environmental habitat that may result in adverse birth outcomes. We investigated whether more babies were born small for gest... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - November 28, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Charlene C. Nielsen, Carl G. Amrhein and Alvaro R. Osornio-Vargas Tags: Research Source Type: research

Mathematical models for predicting human mobility in the context of infectious disease spread: introducing the impedance model
Mathematical models of human mobility have demonstrated a great potential for infectious disease epidemiology in contexts of data scarcity. While the commonly used gravity model involves parameter tuning and i... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - November 22, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kanko é Sallah, Roch Giorgi, Linus Bengtsson, Xin Lu, Erik Wetter, Paul Adrien, Stanislas Rebaudet, Renaud Piarroux and Jean Gaudart Tags: Research Source Type: research

Modelling and mapping tick dynamics using volunteered observations
Tick populations and tick-borne infections have steadily increased since the mid-1990s posing an ever-increasing risk to public health. Yet, modelling tick dynamics remains challenging because of the lack of d... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - November 14, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Irene Garcia-Mart í, Raúl Zurita-Milla, Arnold J. H. van Vliet and Willem Takken Tags: Research Source Type: research

Using meta-quality to assess the utility of volunteered geographic information for science
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) has strong potential to be increasingly valuable to scientists in collaboration with non-scientists. The abundance of mobile phones and other wireless forms of communic... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - November 6, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shaun A. Langley, Joseph P. Messina and Nathan Moore Tags: Research Source Type: research

Urban –rural inequalities in suicide mortality: a comparison of urbanicity indicators
Urban –rural disparities in suicide mortality have received considerable attention. Varying conceptualizations of urbanity may contribute to the conflicting findings. This ecological study on Germany assessed h... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - October 30, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: M. Helbich, V. Bl üml, T. de Jong, P. L. Plener, M.-P. Kwan and N. D. Kapusta Tags: Research Source Type: research