Unpacking walkability indices and their inherent assumptions

A Shashank, N Schuurman - Health & place, 2019 - Elsevier
Walkability indices are used to characterize the relationship between health and place.
Indices make assumptions that affect analysis of the built environment and resulting …

How healthy is the built environment? Challenges and paradigms for measuring urban health

A Salmi, J Chenal, R Jaligot - Cities & health, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Health evidence and health data are not widely used to shape healthier cities through urban
planning. Indeed research has not produced an extensive standardised assessment able to …

COVIDanno, COVID-19 annotation in human

Y Feng, M Yang, Z Fan, W Zhao, P Kim… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the etiologic agent of
coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), has caused a global health crisis. Despite ongoing …

Spatial distribution of common childhood illnesses, healthcare utilisation and associated factors in Ethiopia: Evidence from 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health …

A Defar, Y B. Okwaraji, Z Tigabu, LÅ Persson, K Alemu - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Childhood illnesses, such as acute respiratory illness, fever, and diarrhoea,
continue to be public health problems in low-income countries. Detecting spatial variations …

A spatial epidemiology case study of mentally unhealthy days (MUDs): air pollution, community resilience, and sunlight perspectives

H Ha, W Shao - International journal of environmental health …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The main objective of this spatial epidemiologic research is to gain greater insights into the
geographic dimension displayed by the different duration of mentally unhealthy days …

Rural–Urban Differences in Non-Local Primary Care Utilization among People with Osteoarthritis: The Role of Area-Level Factors

X Liu, JE Seidel, T McDonald, N Waters… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The utilization of non-local primary care physicians (PCP) is a key primary care indicator
identified by Alberta Health to support evidence-based healthcare planning. This study aims …

Political geography of violence: Municipal politics and homicide in Brazil

MC Ingram, MM da Costa - World Development, 2019 - Elsevier
Violence has harmful effects on individuals and society. This is especially true in Latin
America, a region that stands out globally for its high homicide rate. Building on research on …

Appraisal of urban–rural disparities in access to health care facilities and exposure to health risk factors: A case study of Durgapur Industrial region, India

S Chatterjee, K Sarkar - GeoJournal, 2022 - Springer
Spatial health disparity is one of the least investigated public health issues in India.
Quantifying disparity and balance between health risks and health-care access are the keys …

Towards a geocomputational landscape epidemiology: surveillance, modelling, and interventions

C Robertson - GeoJournal, 2017 - Springer
The ability to explicitly represent infectious disease distributions and their risk factors over
massive geographical and temporal scales has transformed how we investigate how …

Uncovering spatial variation in maternal healthcare service use at subnational level in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia

J Kurji, B Talbot, G Bulcha, KH Bedru… - BMC health services …, 2020 - Springer
Background Analysis of disaggregated national data suggest uneven access to essential
maternal healthcare services within countries. This is of concern as it hinders equitable …