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Stress and perceived health among primary care visitors in two corners of Europe: Scandinavia and Greece
The global financial crisis emerging in 2008 struck Greece especially hard, whereas Scandinavian countries were less affected. This has created a unique opportunity to study the long-term effect of community s... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - December 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jenny Koppner, Marios Chatziarzenis, Tomas Faresj ö, Elvar Theodorsson, Annika Thorsell, Staffan Nilsson, Ole Olsen and Åshild Faresjö Tags: Research Source Type: research

Spatiotemporal access to emergency medical services in Wuhan, China: accounting for scene and transport time intervals
Access as a primary indicator of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) efficiency has been widely studied over the last few decades. Most previous studies considered one-way trips, either getting ambulances to patie... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - November 26, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Weicong Luo, Jing Yao, Richard Mitchell and Xiaoxiang Zhang Tags: Research Source Type: research

Neighborhood environment and muscle mass and function among rural older adults: a 3-year longitudinal study
Sarcopenia, resulting from loss of muscle mass and function, is highly prevalent in the ageing societies and is associated with risk of falls, frailty, loss of independence, and mortality. It is important to i... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - November 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kenta Okuyama, Takafumi Abe, Shozo Yano, Kristina Sundquist and Toru Nabika Tags: Research Source Type: research

Geographic Ecological Momentary Assessment (GEMA) of environmental noise annoyance: the influence of activity context and the daily acoustic environment
Noise annoyance is considered to be the most widespread and recognized health effect of environmental noise. Previous research is mostly based on the static study of residential environmental noise, but few st... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - November 23, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Xue Zhang, Suhong Zhou, Mei-Po Kwan, Lingling Su and Junwen Lu Tags: Research Source Type: research

Neighbourhood environment and depressive symptoms among the elderly in Hong Kong and Singapore
This study aims at identifying the relevant neighbourhood attributes, separate from the individual-level characteristics, that are related to th... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - November 13, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Winnie W. Y. Lam, Becky P. Y. Loo and Rathi Mahendran Tags: Research Source Type: research

Deep phenotyping meets big data: the Geoscience and hEalth Cohort COnsortium (GECCO) data to enable exposome studies in The Netherlands
Environmental exposures are increasingly investigated as possible drivers of health behaviours and disease outcomes. So-called exposome studies that aim to identify and better understand the effects of exposur... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - November 13, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jeroen Lakerveld, Alfred Wagtendonk, Ilonca Vaartjes and Derek Karssenberg Tags: Research Source Type: research

Measuring the association of objective and perceived neighborhood environment with physical activity in older adults: challenges and implications from a systematic review
A supportive environment is a key factor in addressing the issue of health among older adults. There is already sufficient evidence that objective and self-reported measures of the neighborhood environment sho... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - November 9, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Manuela Peters, Saskia Muellmann, Lara Christianson, Imke Stalling, Karin Bammann, Carina Drell and Sarah Forberger Tags: Review Source Type: research

Who lacks and who benefits from diet diversity: evidence from (impact) profiling for children in Zimbabwe
The impact of diet diversity —defined as the number of different foods or food groups consumed over a given reference period—on child nutrition outcomes strongly interacts with agro-ecological, institutional, a... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - November 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Remco Oostendorp, Lia van Wesenbeeck, Ben Sonneveld and Precious Zikhali Tags: Research Source Type: research

Influence of socio-economic, demographic and climate factors on the regional distribution of dengue in the United States and Mexico
This study examines the impact of climate, socio-economic and demographic factors on the incidence of dengue in regions of the United States and Mexico. We select factors shown to predict dengue at a local lev... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - November 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Matthew J. Watts, Panagiota Kotsila, P. Graham Mortyn, Victor Sarto i Monteys and Cesira Urzi Brancati Tags: Research Source Type: research

Bayesian spatial modelling of early childhood development in Australian regions
Children ’s early development plays a vital role for maintaining healthy lives and influences future outcomes. It is also heavily affected by community factors which vary geographically. Direct methods do not p... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - October 19, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mu Li, Bernard Baffour and Alice Richardson Tags: Research Source Type: research

Multivariate Bayesian meta-analysis: joint modelling of multiple cancer types using summary statistics
Cancer atlases often provide estimates of cancer incidence, mortality or survival across small areas of a region or country. A recent example of a cancer atlas is the Australian cancer atlas (ACA), that provid... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - October 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Farzana Jahan, Earl W. Duncan, Susana M. Cramb, Peter D. Baade and Kerrie L. Mengersen Tags: Research Source Type: research

Geospatial estimation of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health indicators: a systematic review of methodological aspects of studies based on household surveys
Geospatial approaches are increasingly used to produce fine spatial scale estimates of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) indicators in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This stud... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - October 13, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Leonardo Z. Ferreira, Cauane Blumenberg, C. Edson Utazi, Kristine Nilsen, Fernando P. Hartwig, Andrew J. Tatem and Aluisio J. D. Barros Tags: Review Source Type: research

Overcoming inefficiencies arising due to the impact of the modifiable areal unit problem on single-aggregation disease maps
In disease mapping, fine-resolution spatial health data are routinely aggregated for various reasons, for example to protect privacy. Usually, such aggregation occurs only once, resulting in ‘single-aggregatio... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - October 3, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Matthew Tuson, Matthew Yap, Mei Ruu Kok, Bryan Boruff, Kevin Murray, Alistair Vickery, Berwin A. Turlach and David Whyatt Tags: Methodology Source Type: research

Evaluating the impact of a small number of areas on spatial estimation
There is an expanding literature on different representations of spatial random effects for different types of spatial correlation structure within the conditional autoregressive class of priors for Bayesian s... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - September 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Aswi Aswi, Susanna Cramb, Earl Duncan and Kerrie Mengersen Tags: Research Source Type: research

Modelling and mapping the intra-urban spatial distribution of Plasmodium falciparum parasite rate using very-high-resolution satellite derived indicators
The rapid and often uncontrolled rural –urban migration in Sub-Saharan Africa is transforming urban landscapes expected to provide shelter for more than 50% of Africa’s population by 2030. Consequently, the bur... (Source: International Journal of Health Geographics)
Source: International Journal of Health Geographics - September 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Stefanos Georganos, Oscar Brousse, S ébastien Dujardin, Catherine Linard, Daniel Casey, Marco Milliones, Benoit Parmentier, Nicole P. M. van Lipzig, Matthias Demuzere, Tais Grippa, Sabine Vanhuysse, Nicholus Mboga, Verónica Andreo, Robert W. Snow and Mo Tags: Research Source Type: research