Advancing insights into methods for studying environment-health relationships: A multidisciplinary approach to understanding Legionnaires' disease

Christine E. Dunn; Raj S Bhopal; Samantha Cockings; David Walker; Barry Rowlingson; Peter Diggle

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2006.10.003

Advancing insights into methods for studying environment-health relationships: A multidisciplinary approach to understanding Legionnaires' disease

Christine E. Dunn, Raj S Bhopal, Samantha Cockings, David Walker, Barry Rowlingson, Peter Diggle

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Recent years have witnessed important advances in the analysis of spatially referenced health data. This paper uses GIS and point pattern modelling to address previously unanswered questions regarding the spatial epidemiology of Legionnaires' disease. We demonstrate a distance effect for proximity of residence to cooling towers; mixed support for a directional effect; and some evidence relating to multiple sources. In uncovering complex conceptual and technical problems in the spatial modelling of infection risk we also extended the limits of existing point pattern techniques. We advocate further multidisciplinary research to advance methodological developments for understanding spatial environment-health relationships.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	677-690
Number of pages	14
Journal	Health and Place
Volume	13
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2006.10.003
State	Published - Sep 2007
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Environmental health
GIS
Legionnaires' disease
Multidisciplinary
Point pattern analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Development
Geography, Planning and Development
Health(social science)

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