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A diabetes risk index for small areas in England
(Elsevier, 2020-04-23)
© 2020 UK and international studies point to significant area variation in diabetes risk, and summary indices of diabetic risk are potentially of value in effective targeting of health interventions and healthcare resources. ...
Disease mapping models for data with weak spatial dependence or spatial discontinuities
(De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston., 2020-01-01)
© 2020 Helena Baptista et al., published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2020. Recent advances in the spatial epidemiology literature have extended traditional approaches by including determinant disease factors that allow ...
Geographical Aspects of Recent Trends in Drug-Related Deaths, with a Focus on Intra-National Contextual Variation.
(2020-11-02)
BACKGROUND: Recent worldwide estimates are of 53 million users of opioids annually, and of 585,000 drug-related deaths, of which two thirds are due to opioids. There are considerable international differences in levels of ...
Mid-Epidemic Forecasts of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths: A Bivariate Model Applied to the UK.
(2021)
Background: The evolution of the COVID-19 epidemic has been accompanied by efforts to provide comparable international data on new cases and deaths. There is also accumulating evidence on the epidemiological parameters ...
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 ...
Modelling spatially varying coefficients via sparsity priors
(2020-04-01)
© 2020 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. Sparsity inducing priors are widely used in Bayesian regression analysis, and seek dimensionality reduction to avoid unnecessarily complex models. An alternative to ...
COVID-19 Mortality in English Neighborhoods: The Relative Role of Socioeconomic and Environmental Factors
(MDPI, 2021-05-14)
Factors underlying neighborhood variation in COVID-19 mortality are important to assess in order to prioritize resourcing and policy intervention. As well as characteristics of area populations, such as health status and ...