Objective To examine inequities in tobacco retailer availability by neighbourhood-level
socioeconomic, racial/ethnic and same-sex couple composition. Data sources We …

Purpose Overview of geographically explicit momentary assessment research, applied to
the study of mental health and well-being, which allows for cross-validation, extension, and …

Abstract We analyze a Big Data set of geo-tagged tweets for a year (Oct. 2013–Oct. 2014) to
understand the regional linguistic variation in the US Prior work on regional linguistic …

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 …

Objective To elucidate how demographics of US Census tracts are related to tobacco outlet
density (TOD). Method The authors conducted a nationwide assessment of the association …

Background Health studies and mHealth applications are increasingly resorting to tracking
technologies such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to study the relation between …

This survey article describes previous research addressing text‐based document
geocoding, ie the task of predicting the geospatial coordinates of latitude and longitude, that …

Objective Environmental exposure to food sources may underpin area level differences in
individual risk for overweight. Place of residence is generally used to assess neighbourhood …

Alcohol outlet clusters are an important social determinant of health in cities, but little is
known about the populations exposed to them. If outlets cluster in neighborhoods comprised …

Features of the built environment that may influence physical activity (PA) levels are
commonly captured using a so-called walkability index. Since such indices typically …