eHealth or digital health innovations expanded tremendously during the COVID-19
pandemic. Innovation and digitalization offer creative solutions to build up a healthy society …

Abstract Background Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System
(GPS), vital tools for supporting public health research, provide a framework to collect …

This article outlines the motivation for a spatial approach as a novel focus for cross-
disciplinary interaction and research in the social and behavioral sciences. The authors …

The relationship between the spread of mass education and fertility-limiting behavior is
examined. Existing theories relating education to fertility limitation are integrated, including …

Calls have been issued for understanding the “contexts” or “environment” shaping the
causes and consequences of health and health care. Existing efforts raise concerns about …

Scholars in many social science disciplines have taken note of the re-emerging interest in
issues concerning social processes embedded within a spatial context. While some argue …

As fertility differences in the United States diminish, population redistribution trends are
increasingly dependent on migration. This research used newly developed county-level age …

Remote sensing—both data and image processing—and analysis through geographic
information systems (GIS) are increasingly affecting the research agendas on global …

It is suggested that environmental or geographical factors (eg population density, climate
and disease environment) play an important role in determining infant and child survival …

BACKGROUND Demography is an inherently spatial science, yet the application of spatial
data and methods to demographic research has tended to lag that of other disciplines. In …