Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is increasingly used in health research to
capture individual mobility and contextual and environmental exposures. However, the tools …

Background Understanding geographic disparities in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-
19) testing and outcomes at the local level during the early stages of the pandemic can …

Purpose This study aimed to systematically review the literature on the travel patterns of
patients seeking radiation therapy globally. It examined the distance patients travel for …

All aspects of public health research require longitudinal analyses to fully capture the
dynamics of outcomes and risk factors such as ageing, human mobility, non-communicable …

In this paper, we investigate and evaluate large language models' capability in location
prediction. We present experimental results with four models—FLAN-T5, FLAN-UL2, FLAN …

Mental health conditions pose a significant public health challenge, and low area-level
socioeconomic status (SES) is a potentially important upstream determinant. Childhood …

Background Urban areas are disproportionately affected by multiple pressures from
overbuilding, traffic, air pollution, and heat waves that often interact and are interconnected …

The widespread use of personal geospatial data raises serious geoprivacy concerns for
sharing these data, which may limit the reproducibility of research findings. One widely used …

By using geospatial information such as participants' residential history along with external
datasets of environmental exposures, ongoing studies can enrich their cohorts to investigate …

Introduction Pregnant women's daily time-activity and mobility patterns determine their
environmental exposures and subsequently related health effects. Most studies ignore these …