Original Articles

• Global climate change - a feasibility perspective of its effect on human health at a local scale

  Michele Bernardi

  137-150

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2008.238

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• Defining health catchment areas in Jeddah city, Saudi Arabia: an example demonstrating the utility of geographical information systems

  Abdulkader A. Murad

  151-160

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2008.239

  1821

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• Multilevel spatio-temporal dual changepoint models for relating alcohol outlet destruction and changes in neighbourhood rates of assaultive violence

  Qingzhao Yu, Richard Scribner, Brad Carlin, Katherine Theall, Neal Simonsen, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Deborah Cohen, Karen Mason

  161-172

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2008.240

  1460

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• A spatial analysis of mental retardation of unknown cause and maternal residence during pregnancy

  Huiling Zhen, Andrew B. Lawson, Suzanne McDermott, Archana Pande Lamichhane, Marjorie Aelion

  173-182

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2008.241

  1204

  PDF: 630

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• Malaria seasonality and rainfall seasonality in Sri Lanka are correlated in space

  Olivier J.T. Briët, Penelope Vounatsou, Priyanie H. Amerasinghe

  183-190

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2008.242

  1492

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• Spatio-temporal analysis of pneumonia and influenza hospitalizations in Ontario, Canada

  Eric J. Crighton, Susan J. Elliott, Pavlos Kanaroglou, Rahim Moineddin, Ross E.G. Upshur

  191-202

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2008.243

  2233

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• Identifying areas of Australia at risk of H5N1 avian influenza infection from exposure to migratory birds: a spatial analysis

  Iain J. East, Samuel Hamilton, Graeme Garner

  203-213

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2008.244

  1645

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• Rapid GIS-based profiling of West Nile virus transmission: defining environmental factors associated with an urbansuburban outbreak in Northeast Ohio, USA

  A. Desiree LaBeaud, Ann-Marie Gorman, Joe Koonce, Christopher Kippes, John McLeod, Joe Lynch, Timothy Gallagher, Charles H. King, Anna M. Mandalakas

  215-225

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2008.245

  2051

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• The potential for emergence of Chagas disease in the United States

  Rebecca Click Lambert, Korine N. Kolivras, Lynn M. Resler, Carlyle C. Brewster, Sally L. Paulson

  227-239

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2008.246

  2254

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• The effects of vegetation density and habitat disturbance on the spatial distribution of ixodid ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

  Kenneth J. Stein, Megan Waterman, Jefferson L. Waldon

  241-252

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2008.247

  2001

  PDF: 1188

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• GIS modeling for canine dirofilariosis risk assessment in central Italy

  Michele Mortarino, Vincenzo Musella, Valeria Costa, Claudio Genchi, Giuseppe Cringoli, Laura Rinaldi

  253-261

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2008.248

  1952

  PDF: 807

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• Sensitivity analysis of the relationship between disease occurrence and distance from a putative source of pollution

  Emanuela Dreassi, Corrado Lagazio, Milena M. Maule, Corrado Magnani, Annibale Biggeri

  263-271

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2008.249

  1144

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