ArticleThe Science of the total environment2021
Time to address the spatiotemporal uncertainties in COVID-19 research: Concerns and challenges.
Article in The Science of the total environment, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- The Imperative for Hazard- and Place-Specific Assessment of Heat Vulnerability.Environmental health perspectives · 2025Article
- Exploring the Spatial Relative Risk of COVID-19 in Berlin-Neukölln.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Towards building resilient cities to pandemics: A review of COVID-19 literature.Sustainable cities and society · 2023Review
- Nature's contributions in coping with a pandemic in the 21st century: A narrative review of evidence during COVID-19.The Science of the total environment · 2022Review
- Urban parks as a potential mitigator of suicide rates resulting from global pandemics: Empirical evidence from past experiences in Seoul, Korea.Cities (London, England) · 2022Article
- The private rental housing market before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A submarket analysis in Cracow, Poland.Environment and planning. B, urban analytics and city science · 2022Article
- Greenspace and park use associated with less emotional distress among college students in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic.Environmental research · 2022Article
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people's mobility: A longitudinal study of the U.S. from March to September of 2020.Journal of transport geography · 2021Article
- Methodological limitations in studies assessing the effects of environmental and socioeconomic variables on the spread of COVID-19: a systematic review.Environmental sciences Europe · 2021Review
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Abstract
In this correspondence, we emphasize methodological caveats of ecological studies assessing associations between COVID-19 and its physical and social environmental determinants. First, we stress that inference is error-prone due to the modifiable areal unit problem and the modifiable temporal unit problem. The possibility of confounding from using aggregated data is substantial due to the neglect of person-level factors. Second, studying the viral transmission of COVID-19 solely on people's residential neighborhoods is problematic because people are also exposed to nonhome locations and environments en-route along their daily mobility path. We caution against an uncritical application of aggregated data and reiterate the importance of stronger research designs (e.g., case-control studies) on an individual level. To address environmental contextual uncertainties due to people's day-to-day mobility, we call for people-centered studies with mobile phone data.
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