Advancing insights into methods for studying environment-health relationships: a multidisciplinary approach to understanding Legionnaires’ disease
Advancing insights into methods for studying environment-health relationships: a multidisciplinary approach to understanding Legionnaires’ disease
Recent years have witnessed important advances in the analysis of spatially referenced health data. This paper uses GIS and point pattern modelling to address previously unanswered questions regarding the spatial epidemiology of Legionnaires’ disease. We demonstrate a distance effect for proximity of residence to cooling towers; mixed support for a directional effect; and some evidence relating to multiple sources. In uncovering complex conceptual and technical problems in the spatial modelling of infection risk we also extended the limits of existing point pattern techniques. We advocate further multidisciplinary research to advance methodological developments for understanding spatial environment–health relationships.
GIS, point pattern analysis, environmental health, legionnaires’ disease, multidisciplinary
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Dunn, Christine E.
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Bhopal, Raj S.
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Walker, David
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Rowlingson, Barry
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September 2007
Dunn, Christine E.
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Walker, David
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Dunn, Christine E., Bhopal, Raj S., Cockings, Samantha, Walker, David, Rowlingson, Barry and Diggle, Peter
(2007)
Advancing insights into methods for studying environment-health relationships: a multidisciplinary approach to understanding Legionnaires’ disease.
Health & Place, 13 (3), .
(doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2006.10.003).
Abstract
Recent years have witnessed important advances in the analysis of spatially referenced health data. This paper uses GIS and point pattern modelling to address previously unanswered questions regarding the spatial epidemiology of Legionnaires’ disease. We demonstrate a distance effect for proximity of residence to cooling towers; mixed support for a directional effect; and some evidence relating to multiple sources. In uncovering complex conceptual and technical problems in the spatial modelling of infection risk we also extended the limits of existing point pattern techniques. We advocate further multidisciplinary research to advance methodological developments for understanding spatial environment–health relationships.
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Published date: September 2007
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GIS, point pattern analysis, environmental health, legionnaires’ disease, multidisciplinary
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PHEW – P (Population Health), Remote Sensing & Spatial Analysis
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/55788
ISSN: 1353-8292
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