ArticleInternational journal of health geographics2008
Community health assessment using self-organizing maps and geographic information systems.
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- Self-organizing maps as an approach to exploring spatiotemporal diffusion patterns.International journal of health geographics · 2013Article
- Algorithm to determine the outcome of patients with acute liver failure: a data-mining analysis using decision trees.Journal of gastroenterology · 2012Article
- Use of Self-Organizing Maps for Balanced Scorecard analysis to monitor the performance of dialysis clinic chains.Health care management science · 2012Article
- Urban youths go 3000 miles: engaging and supporting young residents to conduct neighborhood asset mapping.American journal of public health · 2011Article
- An eight-year snapshot of geospatial cancer research (2002-2009): clinico-epidemiological and methodological findings and trends.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2011Review
- A small-area study of environmental risk assessment of outdoor falls.Journal of medical systems · 2011Article
- Novel classification of acute liver failure through clustering using a self-organizing map: usefulness for prediction of the outcome.Journal of gastroenterology · 2011Article
- Application of geographic information systems and asset mapping to facilitate identification of colorectal cancer screening resources.Online journal of public health informatics · 2010Article
- Incorporating geospatial capacity within clinical data systems to address social determinants of health.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
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Abstract
backgroundFrom a public health perspective, a healthier community environment correlates with fewer occurrences of chronic or infectious diseases. Our premise is that community health is a non-linear function of environmental and socioeconomic effects that are not normally distributed among communities. The objective was to integrate multivariate data sets representing social, economic, and physical environmental factors to evaluate the hypothesis that communities with similar environmental characteristics exhibit similar distributions of disease.
resultsThe SOM algorithm used the intrinsic distributions of 92 environmental variables to classify 511 communities into five clusters. SOM determined clusters were reprojected to geographic space and compared with the distributions of several health outcomes. ANOVA results indicated that the variability between community clusters was significant with respect to the spatial distribution of disease occurrence.
conclusionOur study demonstrated a positive relationship between environmental conditions and health outcomes in communities using the SOM-GIS method to overcome data and methodological challenges traditionally encountered in public health research. Results demonstrated that community health can be classified using environmental variables and that the SOM-GIS method may be applied to multivariate environmental health studies.
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