Why public health needs GIS: a methodological overview

F Wang - Annals of GIS, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The short paper provides an overview on how geographic issues have become increasingly
relevant to public health research and policy, particularly through the lens of geographic …

Zooming into mobility to understand cities: A review of mobility-driven urban studies

R Wang, X Zhang, N Li - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
Emerging big datasets about human mobility provide new and powerful ways of studying
cities and addressing various urban issues. However, human mobility has usually been …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the use of urban green spaces from user-generated geographic information

V Heikinheimo, H Tenkanen, C Bergroth, O Järv… - Landscape and urban …, 2020 - Elsevier
Parks and other green spaces are an important part of sustainable, healthy and socially
equal urban environment. Urban planning and green space management benefit from …

Escaping from cities during the COVID-19 crisis: Using mobile phone data to trace mobility in Finland

E Willberg, O Järv, T Väisänen, T Toivonen - ISPRS international journal …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis resulted in unprecedented changes in the
spatial mobility of people across societies due to the restrictions imposed. This also resulted …

How does urban expansion impact people's exposure to green environments? A comparative study of 290 Chinese cities

Y Song, B Chen, MP Kwan - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding the difference of greenspace in different urban areas is a critical requirement
for maintaining urban natural environment and lessening environmental inequality …

The neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP): An elusive confounder of the neighborhood effect

MP Kwan - International journal of environmental research and …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Ignoring people's daily mobility and exposures to nonresidential contexts may lead to
erroneous results in epidemiological studies of people's exposures to and the health impact …

Using Google Location History data to quantify fine-scale human mobility

NW Ruktanonchai, CW Ruktanonchai, JR Floyd… - International journal of …, 2018 - Springer
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 …

Measuring mobility, disease connectivity and individual risk: a review of using mobile phone data and mHealth for travel medicine

S Lai, A Farnham, NW Ruktanonchai… - Journal of travel …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Current, future and potential use of mobile and wearable technologies and social media data in the ABCD study to increase understanding of contributors to …

KS Bagot, SA Matthews, M Mason, LM Squeglia… - Developmental cognitive …, 2018 - Elsevier
Mobile and wearable technologies and novel methods of data collection are innovating
health-related research. These technologies and methods allow for multi-system level …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple environmental exposures along daily mobility paths and depressive symptoms: a smartphone-based tracking study

H Roberts, M Helbich - Environment International, 2021 - Elsevier
Few studies go beyond the residential environment in assessments of the environment-
mental health association, despite multiple environments being encountered in daily life …