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Healthcare-seeking behavior and spatial variation of internal migrants with chronic diseases: a nationwide empirical study in China. 国内慢性病流动人口的就医行为与空间差异：中国全国范围内的实证研究》（Hecare-seeking behavior and spatial variation of internal migrants with chronic diseases: a nationwide empirical study in China.

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Geospatial Health Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.4081/gh.2024.1255

Dan Li, Dawei Gao, Masaaki Yamada, Chuangbin Chen, Liuchun Xiang, Haisong Nie

{"title":"Healthcare-seeking behavior and spatial variation of internal migrants with chronic diseases: a nationwide empirical study in China.","authors":"Dan Li, Dawei Gao, Masaaki Yamada, Chuangbin Chen, Liuchun Xiang, Haisong Nie","doi":"10.4081/gh.2024.1255","DOIUrl":"10.4081/gh.2024.1255","url":null,"abstract":"Individuals migrating with chronic diseases often face substantial health risks, and their patterns of healthcare-seeking behavior are commonly influenced by mobility. However, to our knowledge, no research has used spatial statistics to verify this phenomenon. Utilizing data from the China Migrant Dynamic Survey of 2017, we conducted a geostatistical analysis to identify clusters of chronic disease patients among China's internal migrants. Geographically weighted regressions were utilized to examine the driving factors behind the reasons why treatment was not sought by 711 individuals among a population sample of 9272 migrant people with chronic diseases. The results indicate that there is a spatial correlation in the clustering of internal migrants with chronic diseases in China. The prevalence is highly clustered in Zhejiang and Xinjiang in north-eastern China. Hotspots were found in the northeast (Jilin and Liaoning), the north (Hebei, Beijing, and Tianjin), and the east (Shandong) and also spread into surrounding provinces. The factors that affect the migrants with no treatment were found to be the number of hospital beds per thousand population, the per capita disposable income of medical care, and the number of participants receiving health education per 1000 Chinese population. To rectify this situation, the local government should \"adapt measures to local conditions.\" Popularizing health education and coordinating the deployment of high-quality medical facilities and medical workers are effective measures to encourage migrants to seek reasonable medical treatment.","PeriodicalId":56260,"journal":{"name":"Geospatial Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141158966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Spatial patterns of intestinal parasite infections among children and adolescents in some indigenous communities in Argentina. 阿根廷一些土著社区儿童和青少年肠道寄生虫感染的空间模式。

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Geospatial Health Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.4081/gh.2024.1279

Carlos Matías Scavuzzo, Micaela Natalia Campero, Rosana Elizabeth Maidana, María Georgina Oberto, María Victoria Periago, Ximena Porcasi

{"title":"Spatial patterns of intestinal parasite infections among children and adolescents in some indigenous communities in Argentina.","authors":"Carlos Matías Scavuzzo, Micaela Natalia Campero, Rosana Elizabeth Maidana, María Georgina Oberto, María Victoria Periago, Ximena Porcasi","doi":"10.4081/gh.2024.1279","DOIUrl":"10.4081/gh.2024.1279","url":null,"abstract":"Argentina has a heterogeneous prevalence of infections by intestinal parasites (IPs), with the north in the endemic area, especially for soil-transmitted helminths (STHs). We analyzed the spatial patterns of these infections in the city of Tartagal, Salta province, by an observational, correlational, and cross-sectional study in children and adolescents aged 1 to 15 years from native communities. One fecal sample per individual was collected to detect IPs using various diagnostic techniques: Telemann sedimentation, Baermann culture, and Kato-Katz. Moran's global and local indices were applied together with SaTScan to assess the spatial distribution, with a focus on cluster detection. The extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) machine-learning model was used to predict the presence of IPs and their transmission pathways. Based on the analysis of 572 fecal samples, a prevalence of 78.3% was found. The most frequent parasite was Giardia lamblia (30.9%). High- and low-risk clusters were observed for most species, distributed in an east-west direction and polarized in two large foci, one near the city of Tartagal and the other in the km 6 community. Spatial XGBoost models were obtained based on distances with a minimum median accuracy of 0.69. Different spatial patterns reflecting the mechanisms of transmission were noted. The distribution of the majority of the parasites studied was aligned in a westerly direction close to the city, but the STH presence was higher in the km 6 community, toward the east. The purely spatial analysis provides a different and complementary overview for the detection of vulnerable hotspots and strategic intervention. Machine-learning models based on spatial variables explain a large percentage of the variability of the IPs.","PeriodicalId":56260,"journal":{"name":"Geospatial Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141158967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Measuring geographic access to emergency obstetric care: a comparison of travel time estimates modelled using Google Maps Directions API and AccessMod in three Nigerian conurbations. 测量产科急诊的地理位置：比较使用谷歌地图方向 API 和 AccessMod 在尼日利亚三个城市建立的旅行时间估算模型。

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Geospatial Health Pub Date : 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.4081/gh.2024.1266

Peter M Macharia, Kerry L M Wong, Lenka Beňová, Jia Wang, Prestige Tatenda Makanga, Nicolas Ray, Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas

{"title":"Measuring geographic access to emergency obstetric care: a comparison of travel time estimates modelled using Google Maps Directions API and AccessMod in three Nigerian conurbations.","authors":"Peter M Macharia, Kerry L M Wong, Lenka Beňová, Jia Wang, Prestige Tatenda Makanga, Nicolas Ray, Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas","doi":"10.4081/gh.2024.1266","DOIUrl":"10.4081/gh.2024.1266","url":null,"abstract":"Google Maps Directions Application Programming Interface (the API) and AccessMod tools are increasingly being used to estimate travel time to healthcare. However, no formal comparison of estimates from the tools has been conducted. We modelled and compared median travel time (MTT) to comprehensive emergency obstetric care (CEmOC) using both tools in three Nigerian conurbations (Kano, Port-Harcourt, and Lagos). We compiled spatial layers of CEmOC healthcare facilities, road network, elevation, and land cover and used a least-cost path algorithm within AccessMod to estimate MTT to the nearest CEmOC facility. Comparable MTT estimates were extracted using the API for peak and non-peak travel scenarios. We investigated the relationship between MTT estimates generated by both tools at raster celllevel (0.6 km resolution). We also aggregated the raster cell estimates to generate administratively relevant ward-level MTT. We compared ward-level estimates and identified wards within the same conurbation falling into different 15-minute incremental categories (<15/15-30/30-45/45-60/+60). Of the 189, 101 and 375 wards, 72.0%, 72.3% and 90.1% were categorised in the same 15- minute category in Kano, Port-Harcourt, and Lagos, respectively. Concordance decreased in wards with longer MTT. AccessMod MTT were longer than the API's in areas with ≥45min. At the raster cell-level, MTT had a strong positive correlation (≥0.8) in all conurbations. Adjusted R2 from a linear model (0.624-0.723) was high, increasing marginally in a piecewise linear model (0.677-0.807). In conclusion, at <45-minutes, ward-level estimates from the API and AccessMod are marginally different, however, at longer travel times substantial differences exist, which are amenable to conversion factors.","PeriodicalId":56260,"journal":{"name":"Geospatial Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141156092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Geospatial epidemiology of coronary artery disease treated with percutaneous coronary intervention in Crete, Greece 希腊克里特岛接受经皮冠状动脉介入治疗的冠状动脉疾病 (CAD) 的地理空间流行病学。

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Geospatial Health Pub Date : 2024-05-16 DOI: 10.4081/gh.2024.1251

Evangelos Melidoniotis, Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Andreas Tsatsaris, Michail Zografakis-Sfakianakis, George Lazopoulos, Nikolaos Tzanakis, Ioannis Anastasiou, Emmanouil Skalidis

{"title":"Geospatial epidemiology of coronary artery disease treated with percutaneous coronary intervention in Crete, Greece","authors":"Evangelos Melidoniotis, Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Andreas Tsatsaris, Michail Zografakis-Sfakianakis, George Lazopoulos, Nikolaos Tzanakis, Ioannis Anastasiou, Emmanouil Skalidis","doi":"10.4081/gh.2024.1251","DOIUrl":"10.4081/gh.2024.1251","url":null,"abstract":"Coronary artery disease (CAD) constitutes a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is indicated in a significant proportion of CAD patients, either to improve prognosis or to relieve symptoms not responding to optimal medical therapy. Thus the annual number of patients undergoing PCI in a given geographical area could serve as a surrogate marker of the total CAD burden there. The aim of this study was to analyze the potential, spatial patterns of PCItreated CAD patients in Crete. We evaluated data from all patients subjected to PCI at the island's sole reference centre for cardiac catheterization within a 4-year study period (2013-2016). The analysis focused on regional variations of yearly PCI rates, as well as on the effect of several clinical parameters on the severity of the coronary artery stenosis treated with PCI across Crete. A spatial database within the ArcGIS environment was created and an analysis carried out based on global and local regression using ordinary least squares (OLS) and geographically weighted regression (GWR), respectively. The results revealed significant inter-municipality variation in PCI rates and thus potentially CAD burden, while the degree and direction of correlation between key clinical factors to coronary stenosis severity demonstrated specific geographical patterns. These preliminary results could set the basis for future research, with the ultimate aim to facilitate efficient healthcare strategies planning.","PeriodicalId":56260,"journal":{"name":"Geospatial Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140945175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Examination of multidimensional geographic mobility and sexual behaviour among Black cisgender sexually minoritized men in Chicago. 研究芝加哥黑人同性性行为未成年男性的多维地域流动性和性行为。

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Geospatial Health Pub Date : 2024-05-16 DOI: 10.4081/gh.2024.1273

Aleya Khalifa, Byoungjun Kim, Seann Regan, Tyrone Moline, Basile Chaix, Yen-Tyng Chen, John Schneider, Dustin T Duncan

{"title":"Examination of multidimensional geographic mobility and sexual behaviour among Black cisgender sexually minoritized men in Chicago.","authors":"Aleya Khalifa, Byoungjun Kim, Seann Regan, Tyrone Moline, Basile Chaix, Yen-Tyng Chen, John Schneider, Dustin T Duncan","doi":"10.4081/gh.2024.1273","DOIUrl":"10.4081/gh.2024.1273","url":null,"abstract":"Black sexually minoritized men (BSMM) are the most likely to acquire HIV in Chicago- a racially segregated city where their daily travel may confer different HIV-related risks. From survey and GPS data among participants of the Neighbourhoods and Networks Cohort Study, we examined spatial (proportion of total activity space away from home), temporal (proportion of total GPS points away from home), and motivation-specific (discordance between residential and frequented sex or socializing neighbourhoods) dimensions of mobility. To identify potential drivers of BSMM's risk, we then examined associations between mobility and sexual behaviours known to cause HIV transmission: condomless anal sex, condomless anal sex with a casual partner, transactional sex, group sex, and sex-drug use. Multivariable logistic regression models assessed associations. Of 269 cisgender BSMM, most were 20-29 years old, identified as gay, and lowincome. On average, 96.9% (Standard Deviation: 3.7%) of participants' activity space and 53.9% (Standard Deviation: 38.1%) of participants' GPS points occurred outside their 800m home network buffer. After covariate adjustment, those who reported sex away from home were twice as likely to report condomless sex (Odds Ratio: 2.02, [95% Confidence Interval (CI): 1.08, 3.78]). Those who reported socializing away from home were four times more likely to have condomless sex with a casual partner (Odds Ratio: 4.16 [CI: 0.99, 29.0]). BSMM are on the move in Chicago, but only motivation-specific mobility may increase HIV transmission risk. Multidimensional investigations of mobility can inform place-based strategies for HIV service delivery.","PeriodicalId":56260,"journal":{"name":"Geospatial Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11194757/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140944888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Spatial pattern analysis of the impact of community food environments on foetal macrosomia, preterm births and low birth weight. 社区食品环境对胎儿巨大儿、早产和低出生体重影响的空间模式分析。

IF 1 4区医学

Geospatial Health Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.4081/gh.2024.1249

Micaela Natalia Campero, Carlos Matías Scavuzzo, Carlos Marcelo Scavuzzo, María Dolores Román

{"title":"Spatial pattern analysis of the impact of community food environments on foetal macrosomia, preterm births and low birth weight.","authors":"Micaela Natalia Campero, Carlos Matías Scavuzzo, Carlos Marcelo Scavuzzo, María Dolores Román","doi":"10.4081/gh.2024.1249","DOIUrl":"10.4081/gh.2024.1249","url":null,"abstract":"Community food environments (CFEs) have a strong impact on child health and nutrition and this impact is currently negative in many areas. In the Republic of Argentina, there is a lack of research evaluating CFEs regionally and comprehensively by tools based on geographic information systems (GIS). This study aimed to characterize the spatial patterns of CFEs, through variables associated with its three dimensions (political, individual and environmental), and their association with the spatial distribution in urban localities in Argentina. CFEs were assessed in 657 localities with ≥5,000 inhabitants. Data on births and CFEs were obtained from nationally available open-source data and through remote sensing. The spatial distribution and presence of clusters were assessed using hotspot analysis, purely spatial analysis (SaTScan), Moran's Index, semivariograms and spatially restrained multivariate clustering. Clusters of low risk for LBW, macrosomia, and preterm births were observed in the central-east part of the country, while high-risk clusters identified in the North, Centre and South. In the central-eastern region, low-risk clusters were found coinciding with hotspots of public policy coverage, high night-time light, social security coverage and complete secondary education of the household head in areas with low risk for negative outcomes of the birth variables studied, with the opposite with regard to households with unsatisfied basic needs and predominant land use classes in peri-urban areas of crops and herbaceous cover. These results show that the exploration of spatial patterns of CFEs is a necessary preliminary step before developing explanatory models and generating novel findings valuable for decision-making.","PeriodicalId":56260,"journal":{"name":"Geospatial Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140878033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Aspects of public health development in China's western region. 中国西部地区公共卫生发展的方方面面。

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Geospatial Health Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.4081/gh.2024.1252

Jisha Zhang, Jing Luo, Guolei Chen, Chunyan Zhang, Lianlian Li, Taijia Ma

{"title":"Aspects of public health development in China's western region.","authors":"Jisha Zhang, Jing Luo, Guolei Chen, Chunyan Zhang, Lianlian Li, Taijia Ma","doi":"10.4081/gh.2024.1252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2024.1252","url":null,"abstract":"The public health level in a country is closely related to national development and quality of life. In order to appraise the level of health services in the western region of China, panel data of 124 prefecture-level units covering the period 2011 to 2021 was used together with a health evaluation index system based on four dimensions: quality of life, environmental situation, the level of health services and longevity. To assess this, we used entropy weights, standard deviation and coefficient of variation together with the geographical detector model that measures the stratified spatial heterogeneity. The results show that although public health services have improved overall, the various dimensions are still not balanced as longevity did not match up everywhere. While the developmental level of the various health dimensions presents a pattern of a relatively smooth increasing gradient in the west-central- east direction, the situation with respect to the north-centralsouth is more uneven with both ups and downs. However, a trend of continuous enhancement of all health dimensions was found with a significant positive correlation of spatial clustering, with hotspots and 'sub-hotspots' contracting from north to south, while coldspots and 'sub-coldspots' expanded from west to east. This can be seen as the result of multiple factors, with the level of urbanization and economic level as the dominant factors and government guidance, agglomeration capacity and industrial structure being auxiliary.","PeriodicalId":56260,"journal":{"name":"Geospatial Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140702239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Spatial clusters of human and livestock anthrax define high-risk areas requiring intervention in Lao Cai Province, Vietnam 1991-2022. 1991-2022 年越南老街省人类和牲畜炭疽病空间集群确定了需要干预的高风险地区。

IF 1.7 4区医学

Geospatial Health Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.4081/gh.2024.1253

Tan Luong, Minh Hieu Tran, Ba Uyen Pham, Morgan C. Metrailer, Van Khang Pham, Hoai Linh Nguyen, Thanh Long Pham, Thi Mai Hung Tran, Quang Thai Pham, Thi Thu Ha Hoang, Jason K. Blackburn

{"title":"Spatial clusters of human and livestock anthrax define high-risk areas requiring intervention in Lao Cai Province, Vietnam 1991-2022.","authors":"Tan Luong, Minh Hieu Tran, Ba Uyen Pham, Morgan C. Metrailer, Van Khang Pham, Hoai Linh Nguyen, Thanh Long Pham, Thi Mai Hung Tran, Quang Thai Pham, Thi Thu Ha Hoang, Jason K. Blackburn","doi":"10.4081/gh.2024.1253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2024.1253","url":null,"abstract":"Anthrax, a widespread zoonosis in low and middle-income countries with low disease awareness and insufficient livestock vaccination coverage, has been known in Lao Cai Province in northern Vietnam for years before its apparent absence in 2009, which requires investigation as this infection is frequently reported from neighbouring provinces and countries. We aimed to describe the seasonal patterns of anthrax (1991-2008), compare livestock anthrax vaccine coverage to disease occurrence (1991- 2022), and delineate the high-risk areas to inform local disease surveillance in the province. We illustrated the seasonal pattern of anthrax and provided a comparison between livestock vaccine coverage and disease occurrence by purely spatial SaTScan (Poisson model, 25% population at risk) to detect spatial clusters of human and livestock anthrax using population derived from zonal statistics routines. The number of cases, crude cumulative incidence, and spatial clusters of human and livestock anthrax were mapped in QGIS. Results indicate peak anthrax incidence from May to October. Buffalo, domestic cattle, and horses accounted for 75% of total animal cases. Horse anthrax was more common in Lao Cai than in its neighbours and often occurred in years with human mortality. Vaccination covered less than 30% of the livestock population. We found an apparent pattern where anthrax was controlled from 1998-2003 with higher vaccine coverage (>20%) and identified spatial clusters of human and livestock anthrax in Muong Khuong, Bao Thang, and Bac Ha districts of Lao Cai. The local public health and veterinary agencies are recommended to revisit the high-risk areas and communicate with neighbouring provinces for a regional approach to anthrax surveillance and control.","PeriodicalId":56260,"journal":{"name":"Geospatial Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140704181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A conceptional model integrating geographic information systems (GIS) and social media data for disease exposure assessment. 整合地理信息系统（GIS）和社交媒体数据的疾病暴露评估概念模型。

IF 1 4区医学

Geospatial Health Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.4081/gh.2024.1264

Jerry Enoe, Michael Sutherland, Dexter Davis, Bheshem Ramlal, Charisse Griffith-Charles, Keston H Bhola, Elsai Mati Asefa

{"title":"A conceptional model integrating geographic information systems (GIS) and social media data for disease exposure assessment.","authors":"Jerry Enoe, Michael Sutherland, Dexter Davis, Bheshem Ramlal, Charisse Griffith-Charles, Keston H Bhola, Elsai Mati Asefa","doi":"10.4081/gh.2024.1264","DOIUrl":"10.4081/gh.2024.1264","url":null,"abstract":"Although previous studies have acknowledged the potential of geographic information systems (GIS) and social media data (SMD) in assessment of exposure to various environmental risks, none has presented a simple, effective and user-friendly tool. This study introduces a conceptual model that integrates individual mobility patterns extracted from social media, with the geographic footprints of infectious diseases and other environmental agents utilizing GIS. The efficacy of the model was independently evaluated for selected case studies involving lead in the ground; particulate matter in the air; and an infectious, viral disease (COVID- 19). A graphical user interface (GUI) was developed as the final output of this study. Overall, the evaluation of the model demonstrated feasibility in successfully extracting individual mobility patterns, identifying potential exposure sites and quantifying the frequency and magnitude of exposure. Importantly, the novelty of the developed model lies not merely in its efficiency in integrating GIS and SMD for exposure assessment, but also in considering the practical requirements of health practitioners. Although the conceptual model, developed together with its associated GUI, presents a promising and practical approach to assessment of the exposure to environmental risks discussed here, its applicability, versatility and efficacy extends beyond the case studies presented in this study.","PeriodicalId":56260,"journal":{"name":"Geospatial Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140320012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mastering geographically weighted regression: key considerations for building a robust model. 掌握地理加权回归：建立稳健模型的关键因素。

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Geospatial Health Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.4081/gh.2024.1271

Behzad Kiani, Benn Sartorius, Colleen L Lau, Robert Bergquist

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