Social distancing plays a pivotal role in preventing the spread of viral diseases illnesses such as COVID-19. By minimizing the close physical contact among people, we can reduce …
Home-work commuting has always attracted significant research attention because of its impact on human mobility. One of the key assumptions in this domain of study is the …
S Dolley - Frontiers in public health, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Precision public health is an emerging practice to more granularly predict and understand public health risks and customize treatments for more specific and homogeneous …
Surveillance of emerging infectious diseases is vital for the early identification of public health threats. Emergence of novel infections is linked to human factors such as population …
Rationale for review The increasing mobility of populations allows pathogens to move rapidly and far, making endemic or epidemic regions more connected to the rest of the world …
Background Human mobility is fundamental to understanding global issues in the health and social sciences such as disease spread and displacements from disasters and conflicts …
T Xia, X Song, H Zhang, X Song, H Kanasugi… - Health & place, 2019 - Elsevier
Medical accessibility is an important indicator for evaluating the effectiveness of public health services. However, the previous medical accessibility studies mainly focus on spatial …
JW O'Brien, PK Thai, G Eaglesham, C Ort… - … science & technology, 2014 - ACS Publications
An important uncertainty when estimating per capita consumption of, for example, illicit drugs by means of wastewater analysis (sometimes referred to as “sewage epidemiology”) …
Over half the world's population is at risk for viruses transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, such as dengue and Zika. The primary vector, Aedes aegypti, thrives in urban environments …