This survey article describes previous research addressing text‐based document
geocoding, ie the task of predicting the geospatial coordinates of latitude and longitude, that …

Maps are well recognized as an effective means of presenting and communicating health
data, such as cancer incidence and mortality rates. These data can be linked to geographic …

Authoritative and comprehensive, this is the leading text and professional resource on using
geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and address public health problems. Basic …

Until recently, little attention has been paid to geocoding positional accuracy and its impacts
on accessibility measures; estimates of disease rates; findings of disease clustering; spatial …

Methods The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of
Sports Medicine convened a scientific roundtable of physical activity and measurement …

In spatial epidemiologic and public health research it is common to use spatially aggregated
units such as centroids of postal/zip codes, census tracts, dissemination areas, blocks or …

Background Geocoding, the process of converting textual information describing a location
into one or more digital geographic representations, is a routine task performed at large …

A key problem facing epidemiologists who wish to account for residential mobility in their
analyses is the cost and difficulty of obtaining residential histories. Commercial residential …

Background: Examining relationships between features of the built environment and
physical activity is achievable with geographic information systems technology (GIS). The …

Background: Although rural cancer patients encounter substantial barriers to care, they more
often report receiving timely care than urban patients. We examined whether geographic …