Moran’s I and Geary’s C: investigation of the effects of spatial weight matrices for assessing the distribution of infectious diseases

Sarah Isnan; Ahmad Fikri bin Abdullah; Abdul Rashid Shariff; Iskandar Ishak; Sharifah Norkhadijah Syed Ismail; Maheshwara Rao Appanan; Jihong Zhang; Guohua Yin; Qiuhua Zhang; Juan Fang; Duo Jiang; Chao Yang; Na Sun; Alireza Mohammadi; Bardia Mashhoodi; Ali Shamsoddini; Elahe Pishgar; Robert Bergquist; Wentao Yang; Fengjie Wang; Yihan You; Zhixiong Fang; Xing Wang; Xiaoming Mei; Sang Min Lee; Dong Woo Huh; Young Gyu Kwon; Peter Nezval; Takeshi Shirabe; Jonas Schoo; Frank Schüssler; Mai Liu; Yin Zhang; Enríque Ibarra-Zapata; Darío Gaytán-Hernández; Yolanda Terán-Figueroa; Verónica Gallegos-García; Carmen del Pilar Suárez-Rodríguez; Sergio Zarazúa Guzmán; Omar Parra Rodríguez; Worrayot Darasawang; Wongsa Laohasiriwong; Kittipong Sornlorm; Warangkana Sungsitthisawad; Roshan Kumar Mahato; Mintesnot Tenkir Teni; Travis Loux; Ness Sandoval; Anne Sebert Kuhlmann; Iuria Betco; Ana Isabel Ribeiro; David S. Vale; Luis Encalada-Abarca; Cláudia M. Viana; Jorge Rocha; Adel Al-Huraibi; Sherif Amer; Justine Blanford; Néstor DelaPaz-Ruíz; Ellen-Wien Augustijn; Mahdi Farnaghi; Sheheen A. Abdulkareem; Raul Zurita Milla

doi:10.4081/gh.2025.1277

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Typhoid fever in Jakarta, Indonesia 2017-2023: spatial clustering and seasonality of hospitalization data to inform better intervention

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The spatial distribution of interleukin-4 (IL-4) reference values in China based on a back propagation (BP) neural network

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The impact of COVID-19 on healthcare coverage and access in racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States

Lauren Freelander, David S. Rickless, Corey Anderson, Frank Curriero, Sarah Rockhill, Amir Mirsajedin, Caleb J. Colón, Jasmine Lusane, Alexander Vigo-Valentín, David Wong

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The future of general practitioner care in Lower Saxony, Germany: an analysis of actual vs target states using a GIS-based floating catchment area method

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Spatiotemporal distribution and geostatistically interpolated mapping of the melioidosis risk in an endemic zone in Thailand

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Spatial multilevel modelling male partners’ influence on women’s modern contraceptive use: a study in Angola and Zambia

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Spatial heterogeneity in relationship between district patterns of HIV incidence and covariates in Zimbabwe: a multi-scale geographically weighted regression analysis

Rutendo Birri Makota, Eustasius Musenge

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Spatial comparison of London’s three waves of Spanish flu

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Spatial autocorrelation pattern of COVID-19 vaccine coverage in Thailand 2021 and 2022

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Spatial association of socioeconomic and health service factors with antibiotic self-medication in Thailand

Worrayot Darasawang, Wongsa Laohasiriwong, Kittipong Sornlorm , Warangkana Sungsitthisawad, Roshan Kumar Mahato

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Spatial association between socio-economic health service factors and sepsis mortality in Thailand

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Spatial association and modelling of under-5 mortality in Thailand, 2020

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Space-time cluster analysis of anemia in pregnant women in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (2014-2020)

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Socio-spatial vulnerability index of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Mexico in 2020

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Risk discrepancies in COVID-19-related community environments based on spatiotemporal monitoring

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Province clustering based on the percentage of communicable disease using the BCBimax biclustering algorithm

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Optimizing vaccination sites for infectious diseases based on heterogeneous travel modes in multiple scenarios

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Optimizing allocation of colorectal cancer screening hospitals in Shanghai: a geospatial analysis

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Moran’s I and Geary’s C: investigation of the effects of spatial weight matrices for assessing the distribution of infectious diseases

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Mitigating infectious disease risks through non-stationary flood frequency analysis: a case study in Malaysia based on natural disaster reduction strategy

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Mapping livestock systems, bovine and caprine diseases in Mayo-Kebbi Ouest Province, Chad

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Intra-urban differences underlying leprosy spatial distribution in central Brazil: geospatial techniques as potential tools for surveillance

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Geospatial analysis in the United States reveals the changing roles of temperature on COVID-19 transmission

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Geographic distribution and demographic factors associated with use of a long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) in Ethiopia

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Exploring geomasking methods for geoprivacy: a pilot study in an environment with built features

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Environmental and geographical factors influence malaria transmission in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa

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Dengue risk-mapping in an Amazonian locality in Colombia based on regression and multi-criteria analysis

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Association of socioeconomic indicators with COVID-19 mortality in Brazil: a population-based ecological study

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Assessment of the supply/demand balance of medical resources in Beijing from the perspective of hierarchical diagnosis and treatment

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Application of geospatial information systems (GIS) for assessment of the distribution of periodontal disease in Makassar City, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia

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An investigation of geographical clusters of leptospirosis during the outbreak in Pangandaran, West Java, Indonesia

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A geospatial analysis of cardiometabolic diseases and their risk factors considering environmental features in a midsized city in Argentina

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