期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS, 2021; 20 (1)
Background Urban parks are critical environmental resources in which adolescents engage in physical activity (PA). Evidence on the associations betwee......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS, 2021; 20 (1)
Background The urban built environment (BE) has been globally acknowledged as one of the main factors that affects the spread of infectious disease. H......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS, 2021; 20 (1)
Background The two-week illness prevalence rate is an important and comparable indicator of health service needs. High-spatial-resolution, age-specifi......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS, 2021; 20 (1)
Background Heatstroke is becoming an increasingly serious threat to outdoor activities, especially, at the time of large events organized during summe......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS, 2021; 20 (1)
Background Microscale environmental features are usually evaluated using direct on-street observations. This study assessed inter-rater reliability of......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS, 2021; 20 (1)
Background Although neighborhood-level access to food differs by sociodemographic factors, a majority of research on neighborhoods and food access has......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS, 2021; 20 (1)
The public health burden caused by overweight, obesity (OO) and type-2 diabetes (T2D) is very significant and continues to rise worldwide. The causati......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS, 2020; 19 (1)
Background Geriatric depression is a growing public health issue worldwide. This study aims at identifying the relevant neighbourhood attributes, sepa......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS, 2020; 19 (1)
Background Sunburn is the strongest risk factor for melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers. Adolescent sunburns are related to higher risk of developi......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS, 2020; 19 (1)
Background Urban residents from the developing world have increasingly adopted a sedentary lifestyle and spend less time on physical activities (PA). ......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS, 2020; 19 (1)
Background Some studies have reported that air pollution exposure can have adverse effects on pregnancy outcomes. However, the disparity between urban......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS, 2020; 19 (1)
Background Noise annoyance is considered to be the most widespread and recognized health effect of environmental noise. Previous research is mostly ba......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS, 2020; 19 (1)
Background Access as a primary indicator of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) efficiency has been widely studied over the last few decades. Most previou......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS, 2020; 19 (1)
Background Although socio-environmental factors which may affect dementia have widely been studied, the mortality of dementia and socio-environmental ......
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS, 2020; 19 (1)
BackgroundUnderstanding the geographic distribution of hidden population, such as men who have sex with men (MSM), sex workers, or injecting drug user......