Studies on the health effects of long-term average exposure to outdoor air pollution have
played an important role in recent health impact assessments. Exposure assessment for …

The widespread availability of powerful geocoding tools in commercial GIS software and the
interest in spatial analysis at the individual level have made address geocoding a widely …

Purpose Uncertainty is not always well captured, understood, or modeled properly, and can
bias the robustness of complex relationships, such as the association between the …

Public health datasets increasingly use geographic identifiers such as an individual's
address. Geocoding these addresses often provides new insights since it becomes possible …

Background Urban environments can influence many aspects of health and well-being and
access to health care is one of them. Access to primary health care (PHC) in urban settings …

Background Reducing spatial access disparities to healthcare services is a growing priority
for healthcare planners especially among developed countries with aging populations …

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 …

Many spatial analysis techniques rely on the ability to geocode individual locations based
on addresses or other descriptive information. The quality of geocoding and its effect on …

Background Trends in food retailing associated with the consolidation of smaller-format
retailers into fewer, larger-format supercentres have left some rural areas with fewer sources …

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 …