Purpose Uncertainty is not always well captured, understood, or modeled properly, and can
bias the robustness of complex relationships, such as the association between the …

Public health datasets increasingly use geographic identifiers such as an individual's
address. Geocoding these addresses often provides new insights since it becomes possible …

Authoritative and comprehensive, this is the leading text and professional resource on using
geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and address public health problems. Basic …

Cycling is one type of physical activities with documented health and environmental
benefits. Little consensus has been reached about the impacts of urban greenness on …

Many studies have established that urban greenness is associated with better health
outcomes. Yet most studies assess urban greenness with overhead-view measures, such as …

Maps are well recognized as an effective means of presenting and communicating health
data, such as cancer incidence and mortality rates. These data can be linked to geographic …

Many spatial analysis techniques rely on the ability to geocode individual locations based
on addresses or other descriptive information. The quality of geocoding and its effect on …

Until recently, little attention has been paid to geocoding positional accuracy and its impacts
on accessibility measures; estimates of disease rates; findings of disease clustering; spatial …