Measuring the food environment using geographical information systems: a methodological review

H Charreire, R Casey, P Salze, C Simon… - Public health …, 2010 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveThrough a literature review, we investigated the geographic information systems
(GIS) methods used to define the food environment and the types of spatial measurements …

Are neighbourhood characteristics associated with depressive symptoms? A review of evidence

C Mair, AVD Roux, S Galea - Journal of Epidemiology & Community …, 2008 - jech.bmj.com
A review of published observational studies of neighbourhoods and depression/depressive
symptoms was conducted to inform future directions for the field. Forty-five English-language …

Nationwide geospatial analysis of county racial and ethnic composition and public drinking water arsenic and uranium

I Martinez-Morata, BC Bostick, O Conroy-Ben… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
There is no safe level of exposure to inorganic arsenic or uranium, yet recent studies
identified sociodemographic and regional inequalities in concentrations of these frequently …

Conceptualization and measurement of environmental exposure in epidemiology: accounting for activity space related to daily mobility

C Perchoux, B Chaix, S Cummins, Y Kestens - Health & place, 2013 - Elsevier
A considerable body of literature has investigated how environmental exposures affect
health through various pathways. These studies have generally adopted a common …

Geographic and ethnic variation in Parkinson disease: a population-based study of US Medicare beneficiaries

A Wright Willis, BA Evanoff, M Lian, SR Criswell… - …, 2010 - karger.com
Background: Parkinson disease is a common neurodegenerative disease. The racial, sex,
age, and geographic distributions of Parkinson disease in the US are unknown. Methods …

Social capital and health: Does egalitarianism matter? A literature review

MK Islam, J Merlo, I Kawachi, M Lindström… - International journal for …, 2006 - Springer
The aim of the paper is to critically review the notion of social capital and review empirical
literature on the association between social capital and health across countries. The …

The influence of geographic life environments on cardiometabolic risk factors: a systematic review, a methodological assessment and a research agenda

C Leal, B Chaix - Obesity reviews, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Recent environmental changes play a role in the dramatic increase in the prevalence of
cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRFs) such as obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes …

Making a place for space: Spatial thinking in social science

JR Logan - Annual review of sociology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
New technologies and multilevel data sets that include geographic identifiers have
heightened sociologists' interest in spatial analysis. I review several of the key concepts …

Air pollution and individual and neighborhood socioeconomic status: evidence from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

A Hajat, AV Diez-Roux, SD Adar… - Environmental …, 2013 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Although research has shown that low socioeconomic status (SES) and
minority communities have higher exposure to air pollution, few studies have simultaneously …

A review of spatial methods in epidemiology, 2000–2010

AH Auchincloss, SY Gebreab, C Mair… - Annual review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Understanding the impact of place on health is a key element of epidemiologic investigation,
and numerous tools are being employed for analysis of spatial health-related data. This …