Spatial data is of great concern to population health studies. People and entities do not exist in a vacuum, and as such are influenced by and influence those around them. This can lead to geographically correlated issues where space and place are of huge importance, hence the need for GIS in health studies.Spatial epidemiology provides […]
Health geography is related to medical geography, but is much more. It should be obvious that GIS can play a major role in several areas of health geography. However, similarly, it should also be obvious that the use of technologies such as GIS must always be tempered by a critical social and cultural perspective on […]
Geographically weighted regression (GWR) is a spatial analysis technique widely used in geography and related disciplines related to spatial pattern analysis. GWR explores spatial changes and related drivers at a certain scale by establishing local regression equations at each point in the spatial range and can be used to predict future results. As […]