Making the most of spatial information in health: a tutorial in Bayesian disease mapping for areal data

S Kang, S Cramb, N White, S Ball… - Geospatial …, 2016 - eprints.qut.edu.au
Disease maps are effective tools for explaining and predicting patterns of disease outcomes
across geographical space, identifying areas of potentially elevated risk, and formulating …

An overview of geospatial methods used in unintentional injury epidemiology

H Singh, LV Fortington, H Thompson, CF Finch - Injury epidemiology, 2016 - Springer
Background Injuries are a leading cause of death and disability around the world. Injury
incidence is often associated with socio-economic and physical environmental factors. The …

Spatial analysis of the association of alcohol outlets and alcohol-related pedestrian/bicyclist injuries in New York City

C DiMaggio, S Mooney, S Frangos, S Wall - Injury epidemiology, 2016 - Springer
Background Pedestrian and bicyclist injury is an important public health issue. The retail
environment, particularly the presence of alcohol outlets, may contribute the the risk of …

[图书][B] GIS in public health practice

M Craglia, R Maheswaran - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Significant advances in the evaluation and use of geographic information have had a major
effect on key elements of public health. Strides in mapping technology as well as the …

A Gaussian random field model for similarity-based smoothing in Bayesian disease mapping

H Baptista, JM Mendes, YC MacNab… - … Methods in Medical …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Conditionally specified Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF) models with adjacency-
based neighbourhood weight matrix, commonly known as neighbourhood-based GMRF …

Spatial patterns of ischemic heart disease in Shenzhen, China: A Bayesian multi-disease modelling approach to inform health planning policies

Q Du, M Zhang, Y Li, H Luan, S Liang… - International Journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Incorporating the information of hypertension, this paper applies Bayesian multi-disease
analysis to model the spatial patterns of Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) risks. Patterns of …

Geographic variation in condom availability and accessibility

E Shacham, EJ Nelson, L Schulte, M Bloomfield… - AIDS and Behavior, 2016 - Springer
Identifying predictors that contribute to geographic disparities in sexually transmitted
infections (STIs) is necessary in order to reduce disparities. This study assesses the spatial …

Spatial autocorrelation of disease prevalence in South Korea using 2012 Community Health Survey data

WS Oh, CH Nguyen, SM Kim, JW Sohn… - Journal of the Korean …, 2016 - koreascience.kr
As a basic research to investigate geographical variations of diseases, this study analyzes
and compares spatial patterns of 24 different diseases in South Korea using prevalence rate …

Spatial Bayesian surveillance for small area case event data

C Rotejanaprasert, A Lawson… - … methods in medical …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
There has been little development of surveillance procedures for epidemiological data with
fine spatial resolution such as case events at residential address locations. This is often due …

The bivariate combined model for spatial data analysis

T Neyens, AB Lawson, RS Kirby… - Statistics in medicine, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
To describe the spatial distribution of diseases, a number of methods have been proposed
to model relative risks within areas. Most models use Bayesian hierarchical methods, in …