We sought to provide a historical overview of methods, models, and data used in the
environmental justice (EJ) research literature to measure proximity to environmental hazards …

The purpose of this literature review is to identify how geographic information system (GIS)
applications have been used in health-related research and to critically examine the issues …

The leading text in the field, this comprehensive book reviews geographic approaches to
studying disease and public health issues across the globe. It presents cutting-edge …

The last few decades have seen increasing attempts to foster 'collaborative'and
'participatory'approaches to spatial planning and decision-making, with a more sophisticated …

This paper examines methods of environmental justice assessment with Geographic
Information Systems, using research on the spatial correspondence between asthma and air …

This book has been written for readers with a range of different interests. Students
undertaking school or university courses in geography will probably come to this book with …

Objectives Health effects associated with air pollution at exposure levels below toxicity may
not be directly related to level of exposure, but rather mediated by perception of the air …

Background: Multilevel modelling is a statistical technique that extends ordinary regression
analysis to the situation where the data are hierarchical. Such data form an increasingly …

This paper examines the spatial point pattern of industrial toxic substances and the
associated environmental justice implications in the San Francisco Bay Area, California …

Mapping uneven events, such as disease cases or pollutants, is a basic but important
procedure for analyzing regional relationships and variation in public health and …