Epidemiology for public health practice: The application of spatial epidemiology. [PDF]
World J Diabetes, 2022 Spatial epidemiology is the description and analysis of geographic patterns and variations in disease risk factors, morbidity and mortality with respect to their distributions associated with demographic, socioeconomic, environmental, health behavior, and genetic risk factors, and time-varying changes.
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Progress on application of spatial epidemiology in ophthalmology. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2022 Most ocular diseases observed with cataract, chlamydia trachomatis, diabetic retinopathy, and uveitis, have their associations with environmental exposures, lifestyle, and habits, making their distribution has certain temporal and spatial features based essentially on epidemiology.
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Self-reported critical gaps in the essential knowledge and capacity of spatial epidemiology between the current university education and competency-oriented professional demands in preparing for a future pandemic among public health postgraduates in China: a nationwide cross-sectional survey [PDF]
BMC Medical Education, 2023 Background Spatial epidemiology plays an important role in public health. Yet, it is unclear whether the current university education in spatial epidemiology in China could meet the competency-oriented professional demands. This study aimed to understand
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Limited education and training, and practical application but high potential demand of spatial epidemiology among public health postgraduates in China: a serial national cross-sectional study [PDF]
BMC Medical EducationBackground The application of various spatial analysis techniques during the COVID-19 pandemic has improved public health educators and public health postgraduates understanding the role of spatial epidemiology.
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Spatial epidemiology of diabetes: Methods and insights. [PDF]
World J Diabetes, 2021 Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a growing epidemic with global proportions. It is estimated that in 2019, 463 million adults aged 20-79 years were living with DM. The latest evidence shows that DM continues to be a significant global health challenge and is likely to continue to grow substantially in the next decades, which would have major implications for ...
Cuadros DF, Li J, Musuka G, Awad SF.
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Methodologic Issues and Approaches to Spatial Epidemiology
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2008 Spatial epidemiology is increasingly being used to assess health risks associated with environmental hazards. Risk patterns tend to have both a temporal and a spatial component; thus, spatial epidemiology must combine methods from epidemiology, statistics, and geographic information science.
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How Spatial Epidemiology Helps Understand Infectious Human Disease Transmission [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Chia-Hsien Lin +2 more
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Exploring environmental coverages of species: a new variable contribution estimation methodology for rulesets from the genetic algorithm for rule-set prediction [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Variable contribution estimation for, and determination of variable importance within, ecological niche models (ENMs) remain an important area of research with continuing challenges.
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Spatial Epidemiology and Its Role in Prevention and Control of Swine Viral Disease [PDF]
AnimalsJuan Qiu, Xiaodong Li, Huaiping Zhu
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