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Association of neighborhood physical activity facilities with incident cardiovascular disease
The availability of physical activity (PA) facilities in neighborhoods is hypothesized to influence cardiovascular disease (CVD), but evidence from individual-level long-term cohort studies is limited. We aime... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - July 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Yulin Huang, Huimin Zhao, Qiuju Deng, Yue Qi, Jiayi Sun, Miao Wang, Jie Chang, Piaopiao Hu, Yuwei Su, Ying Long and Jing Liu Tags: Research Source Type: research

A practical illustration of spatial smoothing methods for disconnected regions with INLA: spatial survey on overweight and obesity in Malaysia
National prevalence could mask subnational heterogeneity in disease occurrence, and disease mapping is an important tool to illustrate the spatial pattern of disease. However, there is limited information on t... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - June 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Maria Safura Mohamad, Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud and Christel Faes Tags: Methodology Source Type: research

Assessing the association between overcrowding and human physiological stress response in different urban contexts: a case study in Salzburg, Austria
Overcrowding in densely populated urban areas is increasingly becoming an issue for mental health disorders. Yet, only few studies have examined the association between overcrowding in cities and physiological... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - June 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Zhaoxi Zhang, Krist ýna Měchurová, Bernd Resch, Prince Amegbor and Clive E. Sabel Tags: Research Source Type: research

Quantifying the spatial spillover effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on pandemic risk
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented in one place can affect neighboring regions by influencing people ’s behavior. However, existing epidemic models for NPIs evaluation rarely consider such spat... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - June 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Keli Wang, Xiaoyi Han, Lei Dong, Xiao-Jian Chen, Gezhi Xiu, Mei-po Kwan and Yu Liu Tags: Research Source Type: research

Open-source environmental data as an alternative to snail surveys to assess schistosomiasis risk in areas approaching elimination
Although the presence of intermediate snails is a necessary condition for local schistosomiasis transmission to occur, using them as surveillance targets in areas approaching elimination is challenging because... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - June 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Elise N. Grover, William B. Allshouse, Andrea J. Lund, Yang Liu, Sara H. Paull, Katherine A. James, James L. Crooks and Elizabeth J. Carlton Tags: Research Source Type: research

Long-term exposure and health risk assessment from air pollution: impact of regional scale mobility
The negative effect of air pollution on human health is widely reported in recent literature. It typically involves urbanized areas where the population is concentrated and where most primary air pollutants a... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - May 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lorenza Gilardi, Mattia Marconcini, Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini, Thomas Esch and Thilo Erbertseder Tags: Research Source Type: research

Spatiotemporal analysis of the effect of global development indicators on child mortality
Child mortality continue to be a major public health issue in most developing countries; albeit there has been a decline in global under-five deaths. The differences in child mortality can best be explained by... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - May 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Prince M. Amegbor and Angelina Addae Tags: Research Source Type: research

Association of socio-economic deprivation with COVID-19 incidence and fatality during the first wave of the pandemic in Italy: lessons learned from a local register-based study
COVID-19 has been characterised by its global and rapid spread, with high infection, hospitalisation, and mortality rates worldwide. However, the course of the pandemic showed differences in chronology and int... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - May 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Francesca Fortunato, Roberto Lillini, Domenico Martinelli, Giuseppina Iannelli, Leonardo Ascatigno, Georgia Casanova, Pier Luigi Lopalco and Rosa Prato Tags: Research Source Type: research

Uncovering COVID-19 infection determinants in Portugal: towards an evidence-based spatial susceptibility index to support epidemiological containment policies
COVID-19 caused the largest pandemic of the twenty-first century forcing the adoption of containment policies all over the world. Many studies on COVID-19 health determinants have been conducted, mainly using ... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - April 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Andr é Alves, Nuno Marques da Costa, Paulo Morgado and Eduarda Marques da Costa Tags: Research Source Type: research

Characterization of prehospital time delay in primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction: analysis of geographical infrastructure-dependent and -independent components
Prehospital delay in reaching a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) facility is a major problem preventing early coronary reperfusion in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). The aim o... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - March 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Keisuke Oyatani, Masayuki Koyama, Nobuaki Himuro, Tetsuji Miura and Hirofumi Ohnishi Tags: Research Source Type: research

Geographic accessibility and hospital competition for emergency blood transfusion services in Bungoma, Western Kenya
Estimating accessibility gaps to essential health interventions helps to allocate and prioritize health resources. Access to blood transfusion represents an important emergency health requirement. Here, we dev... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - March 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Eda Mumo, Nathan O. Agutu, Angela K. Moturi, Anitah Cherono, Samuel K. Muchiri, Robert W. Snow and Victor A. Alegana Tags: Research Source Type: research

Cyclists ’ exposure to air pollution, noise, and greenery: a population-level spatial analysis approach
Urban travel exposes people to a range of environmental qualities with significant health and wellbeing impacts. Nevertheless, the understanding of travel-related environmental exposure has remained limited. H... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - February 10, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Elias Willberg, Age Poom, Joose Helle and Tuuli Toivonen Tags: Research Source Type: research

Spatiotemporal evolution of COVID-19 in Portugal ’s Mainland with self-organizing maps
Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) are an unsupervised learning clustering and dimensionality reduction algorithm capable of mapping an initial complex high-dimensional data set into a low-dimensional domain, such as ... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - January 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Igor Duarte, Manuel C. Ribeiro, Maria Jo ão Pereira, Pedro Pinto Leite, André Peralta-Santos and Leonardo Azevedo Tags: Research Source Type: research

Comparison of static and dynamic exposures to air pollution, noise, and greenness among seniors living in compact-city environments
GPS technology and tracking study designs have gained popularity as a tool to go beyond the limitations of static exposure assessments based on the subject's residence. These dynamic exposure assessment method... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - January 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Oriol Marquet, Jose Tello-Barsocchini, Daniel Couto-Trigo, Irene G ómez-Varo and Monika Maciejewska Tags: Research Source Type: research

Geospatial techniques for monitoring and mitigating climate change and its effects on human health
This article begins by briefly examining the multitude of ways in which climate and climate change affect human health and wellbeing. It then proceeds to present a quick overview of how geospatial data, method... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - January 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Maged N. Kamel Boulos and John P. Wilson Tags: Editorial Source Type: research