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Mapping child maltreatment risk: a 12-year spatio-temporal analysis of neighborhood influences
‘Place’ matters in understanding prevalence variations and inequalities in child maltreatment risk. However, most studies examining ecological variations in child maltreatment risk fail to take into account th... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - October 18, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Enrique Gracia, Antonio L ópez-Quílez, Miriam Marco and Marisol Lila Tags: Research Source Type: research

Gardening in the desert: a spatial optimization approach to locating gardens in rapidly expanding urban environments
Food access is a global issue, and for this reason, a wealth of studies are dedicated to understanding the location of food deserts and the benefits of urban gardens. However, few studies have linked these two... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - October 16, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Elizabeth A. Mack, Daoqin Tong and Kevin Credit Tags: Research Source Type: research

A generic method for improving the spatial interoperability of medical and ecological databases
The availability of big data in healthcare and the intensive development of data reuse and georeferencing have opened up perspectives for health spatial analysis. However, fine-scale spatial studies of ecologi... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - October 3, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: A. Ghenassia, J. B. Beuscart, G. Ficheur, F. Occelli, E. Babykina, E. Chazard and M. Genin Tags: Methodology Source Type: research

Small-area distribution of multiple sclerosis incidence in western France: in search of environmental triggers
Despite intensive research over several decades, the etiology of multiple sclerosis (MS) remains poorly understood, although environmental factors are supposedly implicated. Our goal was to identify spatial cl... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - September 21, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Karima Hammas, Jacqueline Yaouanq, Morgane Lannes, Gilles Edan and Jean-Fran çois Viel Tags: Research Source Type: research

Univariate and multivariate spatial models of health facility utilisation for childhood fevers in an area on the coast of Kenya
Precise quantification of health service utilisation is important for the estimation of disease burden and allocation of health resources. Current approaches to mapping health facility utilisation rely on spat... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - September 18, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Paul O. Ouma, Nathan O. Agutu, Robert W. Snow and Abdisalan M. Noor Tags: Research Source Type: research

Does exposure to the food environment differ by socioeconomic position? Comparing area-based and person-centred metrics in the Fenland Study, UK
Retail food environments (foodscapes) are a recognised determinant of eating behaviours and may contribute to inequalities in diet. However, findings from studies measuring socioeconomic inequality in the food... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - September 6, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Eva R. Maguire, Thomas Burgoine, Tarra L. Penney, Nita G. Forouhi and Pablo Monsivais Tags: Research Source Type: research

The approaches to measuring the potential spatial access to urban health services revisited: distance types and aggregation-error issues
The potential spatial access to urban health services is an important issue in health geography, spatial epidemiology and public health. Computing geographical accessibility measures for residential areas (e.g... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - August 23, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Philippe Apparicio, J érémy Gelb, Anne-Sophie Dubé, Simon Kingham, Lise Gauvin and Éric Robitaille Tags: Methodology Source Type: research

Relative risk estimation of dengue disease at small spatial scale
Dengue is a high incidence arboviral disease in tropical countries around the world. Colombia is an endemic country due to the favourable environmental conditions for vector survival and spread. Dengue surveil... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - August 15, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Daniel Adyro Mart ínez-Bello, Antonio López-Quílez and Alexander Torres Prieto Tags: Research Source Type: research

Mobility assessment of a rural population in the Netherlands using GPS measurements
The home address is a common spatial proxy for exposure assessment in epidemiological studies but mobility may introduce exposure misclassification. Mobility can be assessed using self-reports or objectively m... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - August 9, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Gijs Klous, Lidwien A. M. Smit, Floor Borl ée, Roel A. Coutinho, Mirjam E. E. Kretzschmar, Dick J. J. Heederik and Anke Huss Tags: Research Source Type: research

Transforming geographic scale: a comparison of combined population and areal weighting to other interpolation methods
Transforming spatial data from one scale to another is a challenge in geographic analysis. As part of a larger, primary study to determine a possible association between travel barriers to pediatric cancer fac... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - August 7, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Elaine Hallisey, Eric Tai, Andrew Berens, Grete Wilt, Lucy Peipins, Brian Lewis, Shannon Graham, Barry Flanagan and Natasha Buchanan Lunsford Tags: Methodology Source Type: research

Ecological niche modeling to determine potential niche of Vaccinia virus: a case only study
Emerging and understudied pathogens often lack information that most commonly used analytical tools require, such as negative controls or baseline data; thus, new analytical strategies are needed to analyze tr... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - August 7, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Claire A. Quiner and Yoshinori Nakazawa Tags: Research Source Type: research

Online versus in-person comparison of Microscale Audit of Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS) assessments: reliability of alternate methods
An online version of the Microscale Audit of Pedestrian Streetscapes (Abbreviated) tool was adapted to virtually audit built environment features supportive of physical activity. The current study assessed int... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - August 4, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Christine B. Phillips, Jessa K. Engelberg, Carrie M. Geremia, Wenfei Zhu, Jonathan M. Kurka, Kelli L. Cain, James F. Sallis, Terry L. Conway and Marc A. Adams Tags: Research Source Type: research

Spatial variability of excess mortality during prolonged dust events in a high-density city: a time-stratified spatial regression approach
Dust events have long been recognized to be associated with a higher mortality risk. However, no study has investigated how prolonged dust events affect the spatial variability of mortality across districts in... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - July 24, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Man Sing Wong, Hung Chak Ho, Lin Yang, Wenzhong Shi, Jinxin Yang and Ta-Chien Chan Source Type: research

GridSample: an R package to generate household survey primary sampling units (PSUs) from gridded population data
Household survey data are collected by governments, international organizations, and companies to prioritize policies and allocate billions of dollars. Surveys are typically selected from recent census data; h... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - July 19, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Dana R. Thomson, Forrest R. Stevens, Nick W. Ruktanonchai, Andrew J. Tatem and Marcia C. Castro Source Type: research

Is gentrification all bad? Positive association between gentrification and individual ’s perceived neighborhood collective efficacy in Montreal, Canada
Collective efficacy has been associated with many health benefits at the neighborhood level. Therefore, understanding why some communities have greater collective efficacy than others is important from a publi... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - July 14, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Madeleine Steinmetz-Wood, Rania Wasfi, George Parker, Lisa Bornstein, Jean Caron and Yan Kestens Source Type: research