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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Geospatial Health is the Journal of the GIS Laboratory at the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, Regional Center for Monitoring Parasitic Infections (CREMOPAR), University of Naples Federico II (https://www.mvpa-unina.org).

Geospatial Health is also the official journal of the International Society of Geospatial Health (www.GnosisGIS.org). The focus of the journal is on all aspects of the application of geographical information systems, remote sensing, global positioning systems, spatial statistics and other geospatial tools in human and veterinary health. The journal publishes two issues per year.

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Where to place emergency ambulance vehicles: use of a capacitated maximum covering location model with real call data

Soheil Hashtarkhani, Stephen A. Matthews, Ping Yin, Alireza Mohammadi, Shahab Mohammad Ebrahimi, Mahmood Tara, Behzad Kiani

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1198

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

Mujiyanto Mujiyanto, Basuki Rachmat, Aris Yulianto, Made Agus Nurjana, Wawan Ridwan, Endang Puji Astuti, Doni Lasut, Pandji Wibawa Dhewantara

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1372

412

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

Zhao Rong Huang, Miao Ge, Xin Rui Pang, Pu Song, Congxia Wang

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1197

989

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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

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1222

2981

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The future of spatial epidemiology in the AI era: enhancing machine learning approaches with explicit spatial structure

Nima Kianfar, Benn Sartorius, Colleen L. Lau, Robert Bergquist, Behzad Kiani

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1386

250

PDF: 60

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

Jonas Schoo, Frank Schüssler

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1339

1692

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Spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and attribution analysis of hepatitis A in mainland China

Xiaodi Su, Chunxia Qiu, Chunhui Liu

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2024.1323

902

PDF: 227

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

Jaruwan Wongbutdee, Jutharat Jittimanee, Wacharapong Saengnill

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1189

1427

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

Kabeya Clement Mulamba

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1340

465

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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

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1207

1210

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Spatial comparison of London’s three waves of Spanish flu

Walter Peterson

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1235

1067

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

Sarayu Muntaphan, Kittipong Sornlorm

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1368

466

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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

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1329

2463

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Supplementary Materials: 486

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

Juree Sansuk, Wongsa Laohasiriwong, Kittipong Sornlorm

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1215

1281

PDF: 467

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

Suparerk Suerungruang, Kittipong Sornlorm, Wongsa Laohasiriwong, Roshan Kumar Mahato

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1220

1179

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

Sami Ullah, SM Aqil Burney, Tariq Rasheed, Shamaila Burney, Mushtaq Ahmad Khan Barakzia

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1192

964

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

Enríque Ibarra-Zapata, Darío Gaytán-Hernández, Yolanda Terán-Figueroa, Verónica Gallegos-García, Carmen del Pilar Suárez-Rodríguez, Sergio Zarazúa Guzmán, Omar Parra Rodríguez

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1348

3431

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Socio-economic and environmental factors are related to acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease incidence in Thailand

Phuricha Phacharathonphakul, Kittipong Sornlorm

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2024.1300

1258

PDF: 289

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Sentiment analysis using a lexicon-based approach in Lisbon, Portugal

Iuria Betco, Ana Isabel Ribeiro, David S. Vale, Luis Encalada-Abarca, Cláudia M. Viana, Jorge Rocha

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1344

615

PDF: 141

Supplementary Materials: 60

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

Jihong Zhang, Guohua Yin, Qiuhua Zhang, Juan Fang, Duo Jiang, Chao Yang, Na Sun

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1286

517

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

Muhammad Nur Aidi, Cynthia Wulandari, Sachnaz Desta Oktarina, Taufiqur Rakhim Aditra, Fitrah Ernawati, Efriwati Efriwati, Nunung Nurjanah, Rika Rachmawati, Elisa Diana Julianti, Dian Sundari, Fifi Retiaty, Aya Yuriestia Arifin, Rita Marleta Dewi, Nazarina Nazaruddin, Salimar Salimar, Noviati Fuada, Yekti Widodo, Budi Setyawati, Nuzuliyati Nurhidayati, Sudikno Sudikno, Irlina Raswanti Irawan, Widoretno Widoretno

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1202

1448

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Prioritizing the location of vaccination centres during the COVID-19 pandemic by bike in the Netherlands

Adel Al-Huraibi, Sherif Amer, Justine Blanford

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1293

1431

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

Wentao Yang, Fengjie Wang, Yihan You, Zhixiong Fang, Xing Wang, Xiaoming Mei

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1362

1217

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

Jiaqi Huang, Yichen Chen, Gu Liu, Wei Tu, Robert Bergquist, Michael P. Ward, Jun Zhang, Shuang Xiao, Jie Hong, Zheng Zhao, Xiaopan Li, Zhijie Zhang

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1152

1496

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Supplementary Materials: 71

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On the geographic access to healthcare, beyond proximity

Songyuan Deng, Kevin Bennett

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1199

1813

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Nigeria’s malaria prevalence in 2015: a geospatial, exploratory district-level approach

Mina Whyte, Kennedy Mwai Wambui, Eustasius Musenge

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2024.1243

903

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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

Sarah Isnan, Ahmad Fikri bin Abdullah, Abdul Rashid Shariff, Iskandar Ishak, Sharifah Norkhadijah Syed Ismail, Maheshwara Rao Appanan

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1277

723

PDF: 190

Supplementary materials: 71

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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

Nur Amalina Mat Jan, Muhammad Fadhil Marsani, Loshini Thiruchelvam, Nur Balqishanis Zainal Abidin, Ani Shabri, Sarah A'fifah Abdullah Sani

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1236

1149

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

Kella Douzouné, Joseph Oloukoi, Ismaila Toko Imorou, Toure Gorgui Ba, Derrick Chefor Ymele Demeveng

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1365

2802

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Supplementary Materials: 509

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Local healthcare resources associated with unmet healthcare needs in South Korea: a spatial analysis

Sang Min Lee, Dong Woo Huh, Young Gyu Kwon

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1295

1427

PDF: 281

Supplementary materials: 101

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Land surface temperature predicts mortality due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a study based on climate variables and impact machine learning

Alireza Mohammadi, Bardia Mashhoodi, Ali Shamsoddini, Elahe Pishgar, Robert Bergquist

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1319

1428

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

Amanda G. Carvalho, Carolina Lorraine H. Dias, David J. Blok, Eliane Ignotti, João Gabriel G. Luz

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1227

1087

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Supplementary Materials: 43

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Integrating agent-based disease, mobility and wastewater models for the study of the spread of communicable diseases

Néstor DelaPaz-Ruíz, Ellen-Wien Augustijn, Mahdi Farnaghi, Sheheen A. Abdulkareem, Raul Zurita Milla

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1326

1656

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Supplementary Materials: 273

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Impacts of sample ratio and size on the performance of random forest model to predict the potential distribution of snail habitats

Yuanhua Liu, Jun Zhang, Michael P. Ward, Wei Tu, Lili Yu, Jin Shi, Yi Hu, Fenghua Gao, Zhiguo Cao, Zhijie Zhang

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1151

1730

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Supplementary Materials: 68

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Impact of climate change on dengue fever: a bibliometric analysis

Mai Liu, Yin Zhang

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1301

1931

PDF: 567

Supplementary Materials: 264

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Identification and mapping of objects targeted for surveillance and their role as risk factors for brucellosis in livestock farms in Kazakhstan

Aizada A. Mukhanbetkaliyeva, Ablaikhan S. Kadyrov, Yersyn Y. Mukhanbetkaliyev, Zhanat S. Adilbekov, Assylbek A. Zhanabayev, Assem Z. Abenova, Fedor I. Korennoy, Sarsenbay K. Abdrakhmanov

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2024.1335

984

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Identification and analysis of spatial access disparities related to primary healthcare in Batna City, Algeria

Ahmed Akakba, Belkacem Lahmar

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1238

1406

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

Ruiwen Xiong, Xiaolong Li

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1213

1170

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Geographical accessibility to healthcare by point-of–interest data from online maps: a comparative study

Heng-Qian Huang-fu, Nan Zhang, Li Wang, Hui-Juan Liang, Ben-Song Xian, Xiao-Fang Gan, Yingsi Lai

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2024.1322

828

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Supplementary Materials: 48

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

Mintesnot Tenkir Teni, Travis Loux, Ness Sandoval, Anne Sebert Kuhlmann

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1302

3067

PDF: 1121

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From Snow’s map of cholera transmission to dynamic catchment boundary delineation: current front lines in spatial analysis

Behzad Kiani, Colleen Lau, Robert Bergquist

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1247

1348

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

Alok Tiwari, Sohail Ahmad, Emad Qurunflah, Mansour Helmi, Ayad Almaimani, Alaa Alaidroos, Majed Mustafa Hallawani

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1205

883

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Design and implementation of a spatial database for analysis of wheelchair accessibility

Peter Nezval, Takeshi Shirabe

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1324

1005

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

Maria Camila Lesmes , Alvaro Ávila-Díaz, Erika Santamaría, Carlos Andrés Morales , Horacio Cadena, Patricia Fuya, Nicolas Frutos, Ximena Porcasi, Catalina Marceló-Díaz

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2025.1292

235

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Correction. Spatial cluster analysis of COVID-19 in Malaysia (Mar-Sep, 2020)

The Publisher

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1233

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Correction. Detecting space-time disease clusters with arbitrary shapes and sizes using a co-clustering approach.

The Publisher

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1232

770

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

João Batista Cavalcante Filho, Marco Aurélio de Oliveira Góes, Damião da Conceição Araújo, Marcus Valerius da Silva Peixoto, Marco Antônio Prado Nunes

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1206

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Associating socio-economic factors with access to public healthcare facilities using geographically weighted regression in the city of Tshwane, South Africa

Thabiso Moeti, Tholang Mokhele, Solomon Tesfamichael

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2024.1288

1138

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

Yuehan Jiang, Xinyu Cai, Yanhui Wang, Junwu Dong, Mengqin Yang

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1228

1145

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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

Fuad Husain Akbar, Nur Amaliyah Riyadh

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1240

1274

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

Mutiara Widawati, Pandji Wibawa Dhewantara, Raras Anasi, Tri Wahono, Rina Marina, Intan Pandu Pertiwi, Agus Ari Wibowo, Andri Ruliansyah, Muhammad Umar Riandi, Dyah Widiastuti, Endang Puji Astuti

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1221

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

Micaela Natalia Campero, Carlos Matías Scavuzzo, Veronica Andreo, María Sol Mileo, Micaela Belén Franzois, María Georgina Oberto, Carla Gonzalez Rodriguez, María Daniela Defagó

https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2023.1212

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