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ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2016

Spatial Modelling Tools to Integrate Public Health and Environmental Science, Illustrated with Infectious Cryptosporidiosis.

Aparna Lal

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Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Environmental Factors Associated withPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Review
  2. Article
  3. Big Data's Role in Precision Public Health.Frontiers in public health · 2018
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Spatiotemporal Frameworks for Infectious Disease Diffusion and Epidemiology.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aparna LalNational Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Acton, Canberra 2602, Australia. aparna.lal@anu.edu.au.
Australian National University · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Contemporary spatial modelling tools can help examine how environmental exposures such as climate and land use together with socio-economic factors sustain infectious disease transmission in humans. Spatial methods can account for interactions across global and local scales, geographic clustering and continuity of the exposure surface, key characteristics of many environmental influences. Using cryptosporidiosis as an example, this review illustrates how, in resource rich settings, spatial tools have been used to inform targeted intervention strategies and forecast future disease risk with scenarios of environmental change. When used in conjunction with molecular studies, they have helped determine location-specific infection sources and environmental transmission pathways. There is considerable scope for such methods to be used to identify data/infrastructure gaps and establish a baseline of disease burden in resource-limited settings. Spatial methods can help integrate public health and environmental science by identifying the linkages between the physical and socio-economic environment and health outcomes. Understanding the environmental and social context for disease spread is important for assessing the public health implications of projected environmental change.

Indexed as

EcologyEnvironmental HealthModels, TheoreticalPublic HealthSpatial AnalysisClimateCryptosporidiosisHumansclimatediseaseenvironmental changeland usespatial

Identifiers

PMID26848669
PMCPMC4772206
OpenAlexW2272127839

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Registered trials

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