ReviewInternational journal of health geographics2016
Emerging technologies to measure neighborhood conditions in public health: implications for interventions and next steps.
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- A Mobile Health Application Using Geolocation for Behavioral Activity Tracking.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Improving spatial data in health geographics: a practical approach for testing data to measure children's physical activity and food environments using Google Street View.International journal of health geographics · 2021Article
- The Psychosocial Impacts of COVID-19 on a Sample of Australian Adults: Cross-sectional Survey and Sentiment Analysis.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2021Article
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- The population randomization observation process (PROP) assessment method: using systematic habitation observations of street segments to establish household-level epidemiologic population samples.International journal of health geographics · 2019Observational
- Bridging the childhood epilepsy treatment gap in northern Nigeria (BRIDGE): Rationale and design of pre-clinical trial studies.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2019Article
- Mapping Variation in Breast Cancer Screening: Where to Intervene?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Use of Twitter data to improve Zika virus surveillance in the United States during the 2016 epidemic.BMC public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
Adverse neighborhood conditions play an important role beyond individual characteristics. There is increasing interest in identifying specific characteristics of the social and built environments adversely affecting health outcomes. Most research has assessed aspects of such exposures via self-reported instruments or census data. Potential threats in the local environment may be subject to short-term changes that can only be measured with more nimble technology. The advent of new technologies may offer new opportunities to obtain geospatial data about neighborhoods that may circumvent the limitations of traditional data sources. This overview describes the utility, validity and reliability of selected emerging technologies to measure neighborhood conditions for public health applications. It also describes next steps for future research and opportunities for interventions. The paper presents an overview of the literature on measurement of the built and social environment in public health (Google Street View, webcams, crowdsourcing, remote sensing, social media, unmanned aerial vehicles, and lifespace) and location-based interventions. Emerging technologies such as Google Street View, social media, drones, webcams, and crowdsourcing may serve as effective and inexpensive tools to measure the ever-changing environment. Georeferenced social media responses may help identify where to target intervention activities, but also to passively evaluate their effectiveness. Future studies should measure exposure across key time points during the life-course as part of the exposome paradigm and integrate various types of data sources to measure environmental contexts. By harnessing these technologies, public health research can not only monitor populations and the environment, but intervene using novel strategies to improve the public health.
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