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ArticleInternational journal of health geographics2023

Geospatial techniques for monitoring and mitigating climate change and its effects on human health.

Maged N Kamel Boulos, John P Wilson

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Article in International journal of health geographics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Analysing the outbreaks of leptospirosis after floods in Kerala, India.International journal of health geographics · 2024
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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

2 authors.

Maged N Kamel BoulosCo-Chair, WG III/9 Geospatial Environment and Health Analytics, ISPRS Technical Commission III, 30167, Hannover, Germany. mnkboulos@ieee.org.
John P WilsonSpatial Sciences Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0374, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article begins by briefly examining the multitude of ways in which climate and climate change affect human health and wellbeing. It then proceeds to present a quick overview of how geospatial data, methods and tools are playing key roles in the measurement, analysis and modelling of climate change and its effects on human health. Geospatial techniques are proving indispensable for making more accurate assessments and estimates, predicting future trends more reliably, and devising more optimised climate change adaptation and mitigation plans.

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Climate ChangePublic HealthHumansClimate changeGeographic information systems (GIS)Geospatial dataHealthcareHuman healthHuman-induced warmingPublic healthRemote sensing

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PMID36707823
PMCPMC9883899

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