TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving longitudinal research in geospatial health: An agenda
AU - Desjardins, Michael R.
AU - Murray, Emily T.
AU - Baranyi, Gergo
AU - Hobbs, Matthew
AU - Curtis, Sarah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2023/3/1
Y1 - 2023/3/1
N2 - All aspects of public health research require longitudinal analyses to fully capture the dynamics of outcomes and risk factors such as ageing, human mobility, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), climate change, and endemic, emerging, and re-emerging infectious diseases. Studies in geospatial health are often limited to spatial and temporal cross sections. This generates uncertainty in the exposures and behavior of study populations. We discuss a research agenda, including key challenges and opportunities of working with longitudinal geospatial health data. Examples include accounting for residential and human mobility, recruiting new birth cohorts, geoimputation, international and interdisciplinary collaborations, spatial lifecourse studies, and qualitative and mixed-methods approaches.
AB - All aspects of public health research require longitudinal analyses to fully capture the dynamics of outcomes and risk factors such as ageing, human mobility, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), climate change, and endemic, emerging, and re-emerging infectious diseases. Studies in geospatial health are often limited to spatial and temporal cross sections. This generates uncertainty in the exposures and behavior of study populations. We discuss a research agenda, including key challenges and opportunities of working with longitudinal geospatial health data. Examples include accounting for residential and human mobility, recruiting new birth cohorts, geoimputation, international and interdisciplinary collaborations, spatial lifecourse studies, and qualitative and mixed-methods approaches.
U2 - 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.102994
DO - 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.102994
M3 - Article
SN - 1353-8292
VL - 80
JO - Health & Place
JF - Health & Place
M1 - 102994
ER -