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Modelling multiple hospital outcomes: the impact of small area and primary care practice variation.
(2006-11-16)
BACKGROUND: Appropriate management of care--for example, avoiding unnecessary attendances at, or admissions to, hospital emergency units when they could be handled in primary care--is an important part of health strategy. ...
Spatial variation in attributable risks.
(2015-01)
The attributable risk (AR) measures the contribution of a particular risk factor to a disease, and allows estimation of disease rates specific to that risk. While previous studies consider variability in ARs over demographic ...
Explaining variations in obesity and inactivity between US metropolitan areas
(2016-04-01)
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. This paper discusses measurement of the main dimensions of the urban environment that have been proposed as relevant to explaining geographic variations in obesity and ...
Assessing persistence in spatial clustering of disease, with an application to drug related deaths in scottish neighbourhoods
(2020-01-16)
© 2019, Prex S.p.A. All rights reserved. Background: The upward trend in drug related deaths in some countries is a major public health concern. Regarding geographic location within countries, many studies report spatial ...
