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  1. It has been pointed out that eye-level greenery streetscape promotes leisure walking which is known to be a health -positive physical activity. Most previous studies have focused on the total amount of greener...

    Authors: Shusuke Sakamoto, Mana Kogure, Tomoya Hanibuchi, Naoki Nakaya, Atsushi Hozawa and Tomoki Nakaya
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:29
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  2. Mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit pose a significant public health threat worldwide, causing more fatalities than any other animal. To effectively combat this issue, there is a need for increased publi...

    Authors: Johnny A. Uelmen Jr., Andrew Clark, John Palmer, Jared Kohler, Landon C. Van Dyke, Russanne Low, Connor D. Mapes and Ryan M. Carney
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:28
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  3. Short-term environmental exposures, including green space, air pollution, and noise, have been suggested to affect health. However, the evidence is limited to aggregated exposure estimates which do not allow t...

    Authors: Yuliang Lan and Marco Helbich
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:27
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  4. Childrens’ outdoor active play is an important part of their development. Play behaviour can be predicted by a variety of physical and social environmental features. Some of these features are difficult to mea...

    Authors: Randy Boyes, William Pickett, Ian Janssen, David Swanlund, Nadine Schuurman, Louise Masse, Christina Han and Mariana Brussoni
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:26
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  5. In response to citizens’ concerns about elevated cancer incidence in their locales, US CDC proposed publishing cancer incidence at sub-county scales. At these scales, confidence in patients’ residential geoloc...

    Authors: Christian A. Klaus, Kevin A. Henry and Dora Il’yasova
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:25
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  6. Communities in the United States (US) exist on a continuum of urbanicity, which may inform how individuals interact with their food environment, and thus modify the relationship between food access and dietary...

    Authors: Yasemin Algur, Pasquale E. Rummo, Tara P. McAlexander, S. Shanika A. De Silva, Gina S. Lovasi, Suzanne E. Judd, Victoria Ryan, Gargya Malla, Alain K. Koyama, David C. Lee, Lorna E. Thorpe and Leslie A. McClure
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:24
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  7. Precise geographical targeting is well recognised as an indispensable intervention strategy for achieving many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is more cogent for health-related goals such as the red...

    Authors: Eleojo Oluwaseun Abubakar and Niall Cunningham
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:23
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  8. The exponential growth of location-based social media (LBSM) data has ushered in novel prospects for investigating the urban food environment in health geography research. However, previous studies have primar...

    Authors: Jue Wang, Gyoorie Kim and Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:22
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  9. The aim of the study is to explore the diversity in recreational walking motives across groups with different sociodemographic characteristics, and to use a dynamic and person-centered approach to geographical...

    Authors: Lars Breum Christiansen, Trine Top Klein-Wengel, Sofie Koch, Jens Høyer-Kruse and Jasper Schipperijn
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:21
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  10. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is increasing in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Overweight/obesity and tobacco use are modifiable CVD risk factors, however literature about the spatiotemporal dynamics of these risk fa...

    Authors: Barbara Chebet Keino and Margaret Carrel
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:20
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  11. The city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is experiencing an epidemic of firearm injuries which has resulted in high burdens of morbidity and mortality. Despite this, little scientific literature exists on the topic....

    Authors: Athanasios Burlotos, Tayana Jean Pierre, Walter Johnson, Seth Wiafe and Michelle Joseph
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:19
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  12. Some studies have established associations between the prevalence of new-onset asthma and asthma exacerbation and socioeconomic and environmental determinants. However, research remains limited concerning the ...

    Authors: Aynaz Lotfata, Mohammad Moosazadeh, Marco Helbich and Benyamin Hoseini
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:18
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  13. Seasonal floods pose a commonly-recognised barrier to women’s access to maternal services, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality. Despite their importance, previous GIS models of healthcare access hav...

    Authors: Elizabeth Jade Mroz, Thomas Willis, Chris Thomas, Craig Janes, Douglas Singini, Mwimanenwa Njungu and Mark Smith
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:17
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  14. The availability of physical activity (PA) facilities in neighborhoods is hypothesized to influence cardiovascular disease (CVD), but evidence from individual-level long-term cohort studies is limited. We aime...

    Authors: Yulin Huang, Huimin Zhao, Qiuju Deng, Yue Qi, Jiayi Sun, Miao Wang, Jie Chang, Piaopiao Hu, Yuwei Su, Ying Long and Jing Liu
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:16
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  15. Overcrowding in densely populated urban areas is increasingly becoming an issue for mental health disorders. Yet, only few studies have examined the association between overcrowding in cities and physiological...

    Authors: Zhaoxi Zhang, Kristýna Měchurová, Bernd Resch, Prince Amegbor and Clive E. Sabel
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:15
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  16. National prevalence could mask subnational heterogeneity in disease occurrence, and disease mapping is an important tool to illustrate the spatial pattern of disease. However, there is limited information on t...

    Authors: Maria Safura Mohamad, Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud and Christel Faes
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:14
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  17. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented in one place can affect neighboring regions by influencing people’s behavior. However, existing epidemic models for NPIs evaluation rarely consider such spat...

    Authors: Keli Wang, Xiaoyi Han, Lei Dong, Xiao-Jian Chen, Gezhi Xiu, Mei-po Kwan and Yu Liu
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:13
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  18. Although the presence of intermediate snails is a necessary condition for local schistosomiasis transmission to occur, using them as surveillance targets in areas approaching elimination is challenging because...

    Authors: Elise N. Grover, William B. Allshouse, Andrea J. Lund, Yang Liu, Sara H. Paull, Katherine A. James, James L. Crooks and Elizabeth J. Carlton
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:12
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  19. The negative effect of air pollution on human health is widely reported in recent literature. It typically involves urbanized areas where the population is concentrated and where most primary air pollutants a...

    Authors: Lorenza Gilardi, Mattia Marconcini, Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini, Thomas Esch and Thilo Erbertseder
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:11
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  20. COVID-19 has been characterised by its global and rapid spread, with high infection, hospitalisation, and mortality rates worldwide. However, the course of the pandemic showed differences in chronology and int...

    Authors: Francesca Fortunato, Roberto Lillini, Domenico Martinelli, Giuseppina Iannelli, Leonardo Ascatigno, Georgia Casanova, Pier Luigi Lopalco and Rosa Prato
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:10
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  22. COVID-19 caused the largest pandemic of the twenty-first century forcing the adoption of containment policies all over the world. Many studies on COVID-19 health determinants have been conducted, mainly using ...

    Authors: André Alves, Nuno Marques da Costa, Paulo Morgado and Eduarda Marques da Costa
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:8
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  23. Prehospital delay in reaching a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) facility is a major problem preventing early coronary reperfusion in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). The aim o...

    Authors: Keisuke Oyatani, Masayuki Koyama, Nobuaki Himuro, Tetsuji Miura and Hirofumi Ohnishi
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:7
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  24. Estimating accessibility gaps to essential health interventions helps to allocate and prioritize health resources. Access to blood transfusion represents an important emergency health requirement. Here, we dev...

    Authors: Eda Mumo, Nathan O. Agutu, Angela K. Moturi, Anitah Cherono, Samuel K. Muchiri, Robert W. Snow and Victor A. Alegana
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:6
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  25. Urban travel exposes people to a range of environmental qualities with significant health and wellbeing impacts. Nevertheless, the understanding of travel-related environmental exposure has remained limited. H...

    Authors: Elias Willberg, Age Poom, Joose Helle and Tuuli Toivonen
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:5
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  26. Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) are an unsupervised learning clustering and dimensionality reduction algorithm capable of mapping an initial complex high-dimensional data set into a low-dimensional domain, such as ...

    Authors: Igor Duarte, Manuel C. Ribeiro, Maria João Pereira, Pedro Pinto Leite, André Peralta-Santos and Leonardo Azevedo
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:4
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  27. GPS technology and tracking study designs have gained popularity as a tool to go beyond the limitations of static exposure assessments based on the subject's residence. These dynamic exposure assessment method...

    Authors: Oriol Marquet, Jose Tello-Barsocchini, Daniel Couto-Trigo, Irene Gómez-Varo and Monika Maciejewska
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:3
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  28. This article begins by briefly examining the multitude of ways in which climate and climate change affect human health and wellbeing. It then proceeds to present a quick overview of how geospatial data, method...

    Authors: Maged N. Kamel Boulos and John P. Wilson
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:2
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  29. The early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC) through regular screening decreases its incidence and mortality rates and improves survival rates. Norway has an extremely high percentage of CRC cases diagnosed ...

    Authors: Dajana Draganic and Knut Reidar Wangen
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2023 22:1
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  30. Obesity is a serious public health problem. Existing research has shown a strong association between obesity and an individual’s diet and physical activity. If we extend such an association to the neighborhood...

    Authors: Ryan Zhenqi Zhou, Yingjie Hu, Jill N. Tirabassi, Yue Ma and Zhen Xu
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:22
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  31. The detection of cancer in its early latent stages can improve patients’ chances of recovery and thereby reduce the overall burden of the disease. Our objectives were to investigate factors (geographic accessi...

    Authors: Nirmala Prajapati, Patricia Soler-Michel, Verónica M. Vieira and Cindy M. Padilla
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:21
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  32. Most existing facility assessments collect data on a sample of health facilities. Sampling of health facilities may introduce bias into estimates of effective coverage generated by ecologically linking individ...

    Authors: Emily D. Carter, Abdoulaye Maiga, Mai Do, Glebelho Lazare Sika, Rosine Mosso, Abdul Dosso and Melinda K. Munos
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:20
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  33. There has been an increased focus on active transport, but the measurement of active transport is still difficult and error-prone. Sensor data have been used to predict active transport. While heart rate data ...

    Authors: Santosh Giri, Ruben Brondeel, Tarik El Aarbaoui and Basile Chaix
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:19
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  34. Mapping geographical accessibility to health services is essential to improve access to public health in sub-Saharan Africa. Different methods exist to estimate geographical accessibility, but little is known ...

    Authors: Jérémie Bihin, Florence De Longueville and Catherine Linard
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:18
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  35. Food is not equitably available. Deficiencies and generalizations limit national datasets, food security assessments, and interventions. Additional neighborhood level studies are needed to develop a scalable a...

    Authors: Nicole S. Hutton, George McLeod, Thomas R. Allen, Christopher Davis, Alexandra Garnand, Heather Richter, Prachi P. Chavan, Leslie Hoglund, Jill Comess, Matthew Herman, Brian Martin and Cynthia Romero
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:17
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  36. Accessibility to stroke treatments is a challenge that depends on the place of residence. However, recent advances in medical technology have improved health outcomes. Nevertheless, the geographic heterogeneit...

    Authors: Kazuki Ohashi, Toshiya Osanai, Kensuke Fujiwara, Takumi Tanikawa, Yuji Tani, Soichiro Takamiya, Hirotaka Sato, Yasuhiro Morii, Kyohei Bando and Katsuhiko Ogasawara
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:16
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. Climate variability influences the population dynamics of the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits the viruses that cause dengue, chikungunya and Zika. In recent years these diseases have grown considerably. Den...

    Authors: Constantino Carreto, Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero and Tania Rodríguez
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:15
    Content type: Research Published on:

  38. The ability of disaster response, preparedness, and mitigation efforts to assess the loss of physical accessibility to health facilities and to identify impacted populations is key in reducing the humanitarian...

    Authors: Sami Petricola, Marcel Reinmuth, Sven Lautenbach, Charles Hatfield and Alexander Zipf
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:14
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  39. Transgenerational epigenetic risks associated with complex health outcomes, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), have attracted increasing attention. Transgenerational environmental risk exposures with pote...

    Authors: Rebecca Richards Steed, Amanda V. Bakian, Ken Robert Smith, Neng Wan, Simon Brewer, Richard Medina and James VanDerslice
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:13
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  40. Transport walking has drawn growing interest due to its potential to increase levels of physical activities and reduce reliance on vehicles. While existing studies have compared built environment-health associ...

    Authors: Jingjing Li, Adam Peterson, Amy H. Auchincloss, Jana A. Hirsch, Daniel A. Rodriguez, Steven J. Melly, Kari A. Moore, Ana V. Diez-Roux and Brisa N. Sánchez
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:12
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  41. In public health and epidemiology, spatial scan statistics can be used to identify spatial cluster patterns of health-related outcomes from population-based health survey data. Although it is appropriate to co...

    Authors: Jisu Moon and Inkyung Jung
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:11
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  42. Widespread use of smartphones has enabled the continuous monitoring of people’s movements and physical activity. Linking global positioning systems (GPS) data obtained via smartphone applications to physical a...

    Authors: Shohei Nagata, Tomoki Nakaya, Tomoya Hanibuchi, Naoki Nakaya and Atsushi Hozawa
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:10
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  43. Studies investigating associations between natural environments and health outcomes or health behaviors in children and adolescents yielded heterogenous results to date. This may be the result of different geo...

    Authors: Carina Nigg, Claudia Niessner, Alexander Burchartz, Alexander Woll and Jasper Schipperijn
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:9
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  44. Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS), vital tools for supporting public health research, provide a framework to collect, analyze and visualize the interaction between differe...

    Authors: Neda Firouraghi, Behzad Kiani, Hossein Tabatabaei Jafari, Vincent Learnihan, Jose A. Salinas-Perez, Ahmad Raeesi, MaryAnne Furst, Luis Salvador-Carulla and Nasser Bagheri
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:8
    Content type: Review Published on:

  45. A better understanding of lifestyle behaviours of children < 7 years and the relation with childhood overweight is needed. The aim of our prospective study was to examine how lifestyle patterns in young childr...

    Authors: Rikstje Wiersma, Richard H. Rijnks, Gianni Bocca, H. Marike Boezen, Esther Hartman and Eva Corpeleijn
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:7
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Dating violence (DV) is a public health problem that could have serious repercussions for the health and well-being of a large number of adolescents. Several neighborhood characteristics could influence these ...

    Authors: Paul Rodrigues, Martine Hébert and Mathieu Philibert
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:6
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. Behavioral science researchers are increasingly collecting detailed location data such as second-by-second GPS tracking on participants due to increased ease and affordability. While intraindividual variabilit...

    Authors: Karen E. Nielsen, Shannon T. Mejía and Richard Gonzalez
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:5
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  48. Local policymakers require information about public health, housing and well-being at small geographical areas. A municipality can for example use this information to organize targeted activities with the aim ...

    Authors: Markus Viljanen, Lotta Meijerink, Laurens Zwakhals and Jan van de Kassteele
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. Authors: Jean‑Baptiste Roberge, Gisèle Contreras, Lisa Kakinami, Andraea Van Hulst, Mélanie Henderson and Tracie A. Barnett
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:3
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:2

  50. The suitability of geospatial services for auditing neighbourhood features relevant to pediatric obesity remains largely unexplored. Our objectives were to (i) establish the measurement properties of a desk-ba...

    Authors: Jean-Baptiste Roberge, Gisèle Contreras, Lisa Kakinami, Andraea Van Hulst, Mélanie Henderson and Tracie A. Barnett
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:2
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in International Journal of Health Geographics 2022 21:3

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