A common index of disease incidence and mortality is the standardized mortality ratio
(SMR). The SMR is a reliable measure of relative risk for large geographical regions such as …

Objective: To investigate the spatial patterning and possible contributors to the geographical
distribution of suicide among 15–44-year-old men. Design: Small-area analysis and …

El análisis espacial es un conjunto de técnicas que utiliza como insumos la ubicación
geográfica o espacial de los eventos que se analizan. El uso de técnicas de análisis …

Background: This study quantifies the spatiotemporal risk of pedestrian and bicyclist injury in
New York City at the census tract level over a recent 10-year period, identifies areas of …

Environmental epidemiology is the study of the environmental causes of disease in
populations and how these risks vary in relation to intensity and duration of exposure and …

Disease maps are effective tools for explaining and predicting patterns of disease outcomes
across geographical space, identifying areas of potentially elevated risk, and formulating …

Progressively more and more attention has been paid to how location affects health
outcomes. The area of disease mapping focusses on these problems, and the Bayesian …

Background Pesticide self-poisoning is the most commonly used suicide method worldwide,
but few studies have investigated the national epidemiology of pesticide suicide in countries …

Survival and event history analysis have developed into one of the major areas of
biostatistics, with important applications in other fields as well, including reliability theory …

Background An epidemic of carbon monoxide poisoning suicide by burning barbecue
charcoal has occurred in East Asia in the last decade. We investigated the spatial and …