GIS-Based Assessments of Neighborhood Food Environments and Chronic Conditions: An Overview of Methodologies

K Ganasegeran, MR Abdul Manaf… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The industrial revolution and urbanization fundamentally restructured populations' living
circumstances, often with poor impacts on health. As an example, unhealthy food …

Integrating human activity into food environments can better predict cardiometabolic diseases in the United States

R Xu, X Huang, K Zhang, W Lyu, D Ghosh, Z Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The prevalence of cardiometabolic diseases in the United States is presumably linked to an
obesogenic retail food environment that promotes unhealthy dietary habits. Past studies …

Spatiotemporal patterns of air pollutants over the epidemic course: a national study in China

K Qin, Z Wang, S Dai, Y Li, M Li, C Li, G Qiu, Y Shi… - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
Air pollution has been standing as one of the most pressing global challenges. The
changing patterns of air pollutants at different spatial and temporal scales have been …

Normalizing the pandemic: exploring the cartographic issues in state government COVID-19 dashboards

AM Adams, X Chen, W Li, C Zhang - Journal of Maps, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Government agencies have utilized Web Geographic Information Systems (GIS) dashboards
to collect and disseminate spatial information on COVID-19. However, not all maps on these …

Spatial scale effects on associations between built environment and cognitive function: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

J Li, JA Hirsch, YL Michael, LM Besser, AH Auchincloss… - Health & place, 2024 - Elsevier
Built environments have the potential to favorably support cognitive function. Despite
growing work on this topic, most of the work has ignored variation in the spatial scale of the …

Assessment of air pollution and air quality perception mismatch using mobility-based real-time exposure

W Song, MP Kwan, J Huang - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Air pollution poses a threat to human health. Public perceptions of air pollution are important
for individual self-protection and policy-making. Given the uncertainty faced by residence …

The effect of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) on spatial aggregation of COVID-19 wastewater surveillance data

Y Zhu, DT Hill, Y Zhou, DA Larsen - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Large wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) projects often have wide coverage and
multiple sampling sites, necessitating spatial aggregation for data reporting and …

The “uneven road” to food: Socioeconomic disparities in the mobility burden of food purchasing behavior in major US cities, 2019–2023

Y Zha - Health & Place, 2025 - Elsevier
Socioeconomic factors contribute to distinct patterns of food-purchasing behaviors, placing a
higher burden of mobility on vulnerable, deprived populations. Traditional approaches often …

Perspectives on modifiable spatiotemporal unit problems in remote sensing of agriculture: evaluating rice production in Vietnam and tools for analysis

BG Peter, JP Messina, V Breeze, CY Fung… - Frontiers in Remote …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Measuring agricultural productivity is a multiscale spatiotemporal problem that requires
multiscale solutions. In Vietnam, rice comprises a substantial portion of the cultivated area …

Accessibility of Vulnerable Populations to Essential Opportunities: a Multimodal Approach with Application to Four Polish Cities

A Radzimski - Networks and Spatial Economics, 2024 - Springer
Accessibility to essential opportunities is one of key measures of sustainability and equity of
transport systems. This paper provides an overview of previous studies in this field and …