International journal of health geographics
Apr 28, 2025
BACKGROUND: Illicit kidney trade networks, operating globally, involve intricate interactions among various players, most notably buyers, sellers, brokers, and surgeons. A comprehensive understanding of these trade networks is, however, hindered by t...
International journal of health geographics
Apr 2, 2025
In an era of rapid technological advancements, generative artificial intelligence and foundation models are reshaping industries and offering new advanced solutions in a wide range of scientific areas, particularly in public and environmental health....
International journal of health geographics
Apr 2, 2025
Generative AI is rapidly establishing itself as a key member of the GeoAI battery of methods, models and tools in use today in various health applications. This paper is the first in an Int J Health Geogr two-article series (2025) on the 'Generative ...
International journal of health geographics
Nov 5, 2024
BACKGROUND: The creation of relief camps following a disaster, conflict or other form of externality often generates additional health problems. The density of people in a highly stressed environment with questionable safe food and water access prese...
International journal of health geographics
Jun 6, 2022
BACKGROUND: Local policymakers require information about public health, housing and well-being at small geographical areas. A municipality can for example use this information to organize targeted activities with the aim of improving the well-being o...
International journal of health geographics
Jan 25, 2021
BACKGROUND: The health burden in developing world informal settlements often coincides with a lack of spatial data that could be used to guide intervention strategies. Spatial video (SV) has proven to be a useful tool to collect environmental and soc...
International journal of health geographics
Dec 11, 2019
BACKGROUND: Considerable number of indoor navigation systems has been proposed to augment people with visual impairments (VI) about their surroundings. These systems leverage several technologies, such as computer-vision, Bluetooth low energy (BLE), ...
International journal of health geographics
Jul 25, 2019
BACKGROUND: Neighbourhood environment characteristics have been found to be associated with residents' willingness to conduct physical activity (PA). Traditional methods to assess perceived neighbourhood environment characteristics are often subjecti...
International journal of health geographics
May 2, 2019
The moulding together of artificial intelligence (AI) and the geographic/geographic information systems (GIS) dimension creates GeoAI. There is an emerging role for GeoAI in health and healthcare, as location is an integral part of both population an...
International journal of health geographics
May 9, 2018
BACKGROUND: Conducting surveys in low- and middle-income countries is often challenging because many areas lack a complete sampling frame, have outdated census information, or have limited data available for designing and selecting a representative s...