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  1. Tanapox virus is a zoonotic infection that causes mild febrile illness and one to several nodular skin lesions. The disease is endemic in parts of Africa. The principal reservoir for the virus that causes Tana...

    Authors: Benjamin P Monroe, Yoshinori J Nakazawa, Mary G Reynolds and Darin S Carroll

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:34

    Content type: Research

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  2. The residential care system is rapidly developing and plays an increasingly important role in care for the elderly in Beijing. A noticeable disparity in the accessibility to existing residential care facilitie...

    Authors: Zhuolin Tao, Yang Cheng, Teqi Dai and Mark W Rosenberg

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:33

    Content type: Research

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  4. DED rate maps from diverse regions may allow us to understand world-wide spreading pattern of the disease. Only few studies compared the prevalence of DED between geographical regions in non-spatial context. T...

    Authors: Sun-Bi Um, Na Hyun Kim, Hyung Keun Lee, Jong Suk Song and Hyeon Chang Kim

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:31

    Content type: Research

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  5. Mercury is a metal with widespread distribution in aquatic ecosystems and significant neurodevelopmental toxicity in humans. Fish biomonitoring for total mercury has been conducted in South Carolina (SC) since...

    Authors: James B Burch, Sara Wagner Robb, Robin Puett, Bo Cai, Rebecca Wilkerson, Wilfried Karmaus, John Vena and Erik Svendsen

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:30

    Content type: Research

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  7. Previous studies testing the association between the built environment and walking behavior have been largely cross-sectional and have yielded mixed results. This study reports on a natural experiment in which...

    Authors: Guibo Sun, Nicolas M Oreskovic and Hui Lin

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:28

    Content type: Research

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  8. There is a growing international literature assessing inequalities in health and mortality by area based measures. However, there are few works comparing measures available to inform research design. The analy...

    Authors: Kevin Ralston, Ruth Dundas and Alastair H Leyland

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:27

    Content type: Research

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  9. West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne pathogen of global public health importance. Transmission of WNV is determined by abiotic and biotic factors. The objective of this study was to examine environmental ...

    Authors: Annelise Tran, Bertrand Sudre, Shlomit Paz, Massimiliano Rossi, Annie Desbrosse, Véronique Chevalier and Jan C Semenza

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:26

    Content type: Research

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  10. Access to skilled attendance at childbirth is crucial to reduce maternal and newborn mortality. Several different measures of geographic access are used concurrently in public health research, with the assumpt...

    Authors: Robin C Nesbitt, Sabine Gabrysch, Alexandra Laub, Seyi Soremekun, Alexander Manu, Betty R Kirkwood, Seeba Amenga-Etego, Kenneth Wiru, Bernhard Höfle and Chris Grundy

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:25

    Content type: Research

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  11. The precise trigger of podoconiosis — endemic non-filarial elephantiasis of the lower legs — is unknown. Epidemiological and ecological studies have linked the disease with barefoot exposure to red clay soils ...

    Authors: Yordanos B Molla, Nicola A Wardrop, Jennifer S Le Blond, Peter Baxter, Melanie J Newport, Peter M Atkinson and Gail Davey

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:24

    Content type: Research

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  12. Evidence linking outdoor air pollution and incidence of ischemic stroke subtypes and severity is limited. We examined associations between outdoor PM10 and NO2 concentrations modeled at a fine spatial resolution ...

    Authors: Ravi Maheswaran, Tim Pearson, Sean D Beevers, Michael J Campbell and Charles D Wolfe

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:23

    Content type: Research

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  13. Although widely used, area-based deprivation indices remain sensitive to urban–rural differences as such indices are usually standardised around typical urban values. There is, therefore, a need to determine t...

    Authors: Mélanie Bertin, Cécile Chevrier, Fabienne Pelé, Tania Serrano-Chavez, Sylvaine Cordier and Jean-François Viel

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:22

    Content type: Research

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  14. Natural-focal diseases constitute a serious hazard for human health. Agents and vectors of such diseases belong to natural landscapes. The aim of this study is to identify the diversity and geography of natura...

    Authors: Svetlana M Malkhazova, Varvara A Mironova, Tatiana V Kotova, Natalia V Shartova and Dmitry S Orlov

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:21

    Content type: Research

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  16. Google Street View provides a valuable and efficient alternative to observe the physical environment compared to on-site fieldwork. However, studies on the use, reliability and validity of Google Street View i...

    Authors: Griet Vanwolleghem, Delfien Van Dyck, Fabian Ducheyne, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij and Greet Cardon

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:19

    Content type: Research

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  17. Despite recommendations for cancer screening for breast and colorectal cancer among the Medicare population, preventive screenings rates are often lower among vulnerable populations such as the small but rapid...

    Authors: Samuel D Towne Jr, Matthew Lee Smith and Marcia G Ory

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:18

    Content type: Research

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  18. Predictive models of malaria vector larval habitat locations may provide a basis for understanding the spatial determinants of malaria transmission.

    Authors: Robert S McCann, Joseph P Messina, David W MacFarlane, M Nabie Bayoh, John M Vulule, John E Gimnig and Edward D Walker

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:17

    Content type: Research

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  19. A linear programming (LP) model was proposed to create de-identified data sets that maximally include spatial detail (e.g., geocodes such as ZIP or postal codes, census blocks, and locations on maps) while com...

    Authors: Ho-Won Jung and Khaled El Emam

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:16

    Content type: Methodology

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  20. Just as power, type I error of cluster detection tests (CDTs) should be spatially assessed. Indeed, CDTs’ type I error and power have both a spatial component as CDTs both detect and locate clusters. In the ca...

    Authors: Aline Guttmann, Xinran Li, Jean Gaudart, Yan Gérard, Jacques Demongeot, Jean-Yves Boire and Lemlih Ouchchane

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:15

    Content type: Methodology

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  22. Spatial heterogeneity in the incidence of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is an important aspect to be considered in planning control actions for the disease. The objective of this study was to predict areas at hi...

    Authors: Andréa S Almeida and Guilherme L Werneck

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:13

    Content type: Research

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  23. Predicting anopheles vectors’ population densities and boundary shifts is crucial in preparing for malaria risks and unanticipated outbreaks. Although shifts in the distribution and boundaries of the major mal...

    Authors: Henri EZ Tonnang, David P Tchouassi, Henry S Juarez, Lilian K Igweta and Rousseau F Djouaka

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:12

    Content type: Research

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  24. There is now a substantial body of research suggesting that social cohesion, a collective characteristic measured by the levels of trust, reciprocity and formation of strong social bonds within communities, is...

    Authors: Crispin H V Cooper, David L Fone and Alain J F Chiaradia

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:11

    Content type: Research

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  25. This article gives a brief overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) for cities, offering examples of IoT-powered 21st century smart cities, including the experience of the Spanish city of Barcelona in implemen...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos and Najeeb M Al-Shorbaji

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:10

    Content type: Editorial

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  27. Health and inequalities in health among inhabitants of European cities are of major importance for European public health and there is great interest in how different health care systems in Europe perform in t...

    Authors: Rasmus Hoffmann, Gerard Borsboom, Marc Saez, Marc Mari Dell’Olmo, Bo Burström, Diana Corman, Claudia Costa, Patrick Deboosere, M Felicitas Domínguez-Berjón, Dagmar Dzúrová, Ana Gandarillas, Mercè Gotsens, Katalin Kovács, Johan Mackenbach, Pekka Martikainen, Laia Maynou…

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:8

    Content type: Research

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  28. A residential area supportive for walking may facilitate elderly to live longer independently. However, current evidence on area characteristics potentially important for walking among older persons is mixed. ...

    Authors: Astrid Etman, Carlijn BM Kamphuis, Richard G Prins, Alex Burdorf, Frank H Pierik and Frank J van Lenthe

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:7

    Content type: Research

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  29. This study aims to suggest an approach that integrates multilevel models and eigenvector spatial filtering methods and apply it to a case study of self-rated health status in South Korea. In many previous heal...

    Authors: Yoo Min Park and Youngho Kim

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:6

    Content type: Methodology

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  30. The school journey may make an important contribution to children’s physical activity and provide exposure to food and physical activity environments. Typically, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been ...

    Authors: Flo Harrison, Thomas Burgoine, Kirsten Corder, Esther MF van Sluijs and Andy Jones

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:5

    Content type: Research

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  31. The emphasis placed on the activities of mobile teams in the detection of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) can at times obscure the major role played by fixed health facilities in HAT control and ...

    Authors: Pere P Simarro, Giuliano Cecchi, José R Franco, Massimo Paone, Abdoulaye Diarra, José A Ruiz-Postigo, Raffaele C Mattioli and Jean G Jannin

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:4

    Content type: Research

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  32. Urban sprawl has the potential to influence cancer mortality via direct and indirect effects on obesity, access to health services, physical activity, transportation choices and other correlates of sprawl and ...

    Authors: David Berrigan, Zaria Tatalovich, Linda W Pickle, Reid Ewing and Rachel Ballard-Barbash

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:3

    Content type: Research

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  33. The health and survival of women and their new-born babies in low income countries has been a key priority in public health since the 1990s. However, basic planning data, such as numbers of pregnancies and bir...

    Authors: Andrew J Tatem, James Campbell, Maria Guerra-Arias, Luc de Bernis, Allisyn Moran and Zoë Matthews

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:2

    Content type: Methodology

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  34. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disease with a lifetime risk of developing as 1 in 700. Despite many recent discoveries about the genetics of ALS, the etiology of ...

    Authors: Nathan Torbick, Sarah Hession, Elijah Stommel and Tracie Caller

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2014 13:1

    Content type: Research

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  35. Walkability describes the capacity of the built environment to support walking for various purposes. This paper describes the construction and validation of two objective walkability indexes for Sydney, Austra...

    Authors: Darren J Mayne, Geoffrey G Morgan, Alan Willmore, Nectarios Rose, Bin Jalaludin, Hilary Bambrick and Adrian Bauman

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2013 12:61

    Content type: Research

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  37. Variations in ‘slope’ (how steep or flat the ground is) may be good for health. As walking up hills is a physiologically vigorous physical activity and can contribute to weight control, greater neighbourhood s...

    Authors: Karen Villanueva, Matthew Knuiman, Mohammad Javad Koohsari, Sharyn Hickey, Sarah Foster, Hannah Badland, Andrea Nathan, Fiona Bull and Billie Giles-Corti

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2013 12:59

    Content type: Research

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  38. Pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods with proximal destinations and services encourage walking and decrease car dependence, thereby contributing to more active and healthier communities. Proximity to key destinat...

    Authors: Hannah Badland, Marcus White, Gus MacAulay, Serryn Eagleson, Suzanne Mavoa, Christopher Pettit and Billie Giles-Corti

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2013 12:58

    Content type: Methodology

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  39. Numerous definitions of neighborhood exist, yet few studies have considered youth’s perceptions of neighborhood boundaries. This study compared youth-identified neighborhood (YIN) boundaries to census-defined ...

    Authors: Alyssa I Robinson and Nicolas M Oreskovic

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2013 12:57

    Content type: Research

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  40. Data from surveillance networks help epidemiologists and public health officials detect emerging diseases, conduct outbreak investigations, manage epidemics, and better understand the mechanics of a particular...

    Authors: Geoffrey Fairchild, Philip M Polgreen, Eric Foster, Gerard Rushton and Alberto M Segre

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2013 12:56

    Content type: Research

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  41. The majority of maternal deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths are concentrated in a few countries, many of which have weak health systems, poor access to health services, and low coverage of key health int...

    Authors: Wendy Prudhomme O’Meara, Alyssa Platt, Violet Naanyu, Donald Cole and Samson Ndege

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2013 12:55

    Content type: Research

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  42. There is a rising public and political demand for prospective cancer cluster monitoring. But there is little empirical evidence on the performance of established cluster detection tests under conditions of sma...

    Authors: Dorothea Lemke, Volkmar Mattauch, Oliver Heidinger, Edzer Pebesma and Hans-Werner Hense

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2013 12:54

    Content type: Research

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  43. Recently, Google Street View (GSV) has been examined as a tool for remotely conducting systematic observation of the built environment. Studies have found it offers benefits over in-person audits, including ef...

    Authors: Jacqueline W Curtis, Andrew Curtis, Jennifer Mapes, Andrea B Szell and Adam Cinderich

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2013 12:53

    Content type: Methodology

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  44. Little research has focused on the spatial distribution of social capital, despite social capital’s rising popularity in health research and policy. This study examines the neighborhood differences in social c...

    Authors: Tijs Neutens, Veerle Vyncke, Dieter De Winter and Sara Willems

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2013 12:52

    Content type: Research

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  45. Chikungunya was, from the European perspective, considered to be a travel-related tropical mosquito-borne disease prior to the first European outbreak in Northern Italy in 2007. This was followed by cases of a...

    Authors: Dominik Fischer, Stephanie M Thomas, Jonathan E Suk, Bertrand Sudre, Andrea Hess, Nils B Tjaden, Carl Beierkuhnlein and Jan C Semenza

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2013 12:51

    Content type: Research

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  46. Geocoding, the process of converting textual information describing a location into one or more digital geographic representations, is a routine task performed at large organizations and government agencies ac...

    Authors: Daniel W Goldberg, Morven Ballard, James H Boyd, Narelle Mullan, Carol Garfield, Diana Rosman, Anna M Ferrante and James B Semmens

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2013 12:50

    Content type: Research

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  47. Plague (Yersinia pestis infection) is a vector-borne disease which caused millions of human deaths in the Middle Ages. The hosts of plague are mostly rodents, and the disease is spread by the fleas that feed on t...

    Authors: Liesbeth I Wilschut, Elisabeth A Addink, Hans Heesterbeek, Lise Heier, Anne Laudisoit, Mike Begon, Stephen Davis, Vladimir M Dubyanskiy, Leonid A Burdelov and Steven M de Jong

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2013 12:49

    Content type: Research

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  48. Interruption of vector-borne transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi remains an unrealized objective in many Latin American countries. The task of vector control is complicated by the emergence of vector insects in urb...

    Authors: Stephen Delgado, Kacey C Ernst, María Luz Hancco Pumahuanca, Stephen R Yool, Andrew C Comrie, Charles R Sterling, Robert H Gilman, César Náquira and Michael Z Levy

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2013 12:48

    Content type: Research

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  49. Conventional power studies possess limited ability to assess the performance of cluster detection tests. In particular, they cannot evaluate the accuracy of the cluster location, which is essential in such ass...

    Authors: Aline Guttmann, Lemlih Ouchchane, Xinran Li, Isabelle Perthus, Jean Gaudart, Jacques Demongeot and Jean-Yves Boire

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2013 12:47

    Content type: Methodology

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  50. Late antenatal care and smoking during pregnancy are two important factors that are amenable to intervention. Despite the adverse health impacts of smoking during pregnancy and the health benefits of early fir...

    Authors: Shanley Chong, Michael Nelson, Roy Byun, Liz Harris, John Eastwood and Bin Jalaludin

    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2013 12:46

    Content type: Research

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