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Healthcare accessibility in preconflict Syria: a comparative spatial analysis by Audi, Mhd Nour, Mwenda, Kevin M, Wei, Guixing, Lurie, Mark N

“…IntroductionThere is scarce information about the allocation of health resources in Syria. Pre-existing inequalities were further intensified after the 2011…”
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Impact of air pollution on stunting among children in Africa by deSouza, Priyanka N, Hammer, Melanie, Anthamatten, Peter, Kinney, Patrick L, Kim, Rockli, Subramanian, S V, Bell, Michelle L, Mwenda, Kevin M

“…Undernutrition is a global public health crisis, causing nearly half of deaths for children under age 5 years. Little is known regarding the impact of air…”
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Is It the Timing? Short-Term Mobility and Coital Frequency in Agbogbloshie, Ghana by Cassels, Susan, Mwenda, Kevin M., Biney, Adriana A. E., Jenness, Samuel M.

“…Short-term mobility is often associated with increased sexual risk behavior. Mobile individuals often have higher rates of sexual risk behavior compared to…”
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Quantifying clinic transfers among people living with HIV in the Western Cape, South Africa: a retrospective spatial analysis by Espinosa Dice, Ana Lucia, Bengtson, Angela M, Mwenda, Kevin M, Colvin, Christopher J, Lurie, Mark N

“…ObjectivesFor persons living with HIV (PLWH) in long-term care, clinic transfers are common and influence sustained engagement in HIV care, as they are…”
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The Fully Understanding Eating and Lifestyle Behaviors (FUEL) trial: Protocol for a cohort study harnessing digital health tools to phenotype dietary non-adherence behaviors during lifestyle intervention by Goldstein, Stephanie P, Mwenda, Kevin M, Hoover, Adam W, Shenkle, Olivia, Jones, Richard N, Thomas, John Graham

“…Lifestyle intervention can produce clinically significant weight loss and reduced disease risk/severity for many individuals with overweight/obesity. Dietary…”
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Robust relationship between ambient air pollution and infant mortality in India by deSouza, Priyanka N., Dey, Sagnik, Mwenda, Kevin M., Kim, Rockli, Subramanian, S.V., Kinney, Patrick L.

“…Ambient exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is one of the top global health concerns. We estimate the associations between in-utero and perinatal…”
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The association between neighborhood deprivation and engagement in mental healthcare after implementation of the perinatal collaborative care model by Polnaszek, Brock E., Mwenda, Kevin M., Nelson, Latasha D., Sit, Dorothy K., Lewkowitz, Adam K., Miller, Emily S.

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Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology Reporting Standards (ISLE-ReSt) statement by Jia, Peng, Yu, Chao, Remais, Justin V., Stein, Alfred, Liu, Yu, Brownson, Ross C., Lakerveld, Jeroen, Wu, Tong, Yang, Lijian, Smith, Melody, Amer, Sherif, Pearce, Jamie, Kestens, Yan, Kwan, Mei-Po, Lai, Shengjie, Xu, Fei, Chen, Xi, Rundle, Andrew, Xiao, Qian, Xue, Hong, Luo, Miyang, Zhao, Li, Cheng, Guo, Yang, Shujuan, Zhou, Xiaolu, Li, Yan, Panter, Jenna, Kingham, Simon, Jones, Andy, Johnson, Blair T., Shi, Xun, Zhang, Lin, Wang, Limin, Wu, Jianguo, Mavoa, Suzanne, Toivonen, Tuuli, Mwenda, Kevin M., Wang, Youfa, Verschuren, W.M. Monique, Vermeulen, Roel, James, Peter

“…Spatial lifecourse epidemiology is an interdisciplinary field that utilizes advanced spatial, location-based, and artificial intelligence technologies to…”
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Geographic Variation in Pneumonia and Influenza in Long-Term Care Facilities: A National Study by Bosco, Elliott, Zullo, Andrew R, McConeghy, Kevin W, Moyo, Patience, van Aalst, Robertus, Chit, Ayman, Mwenda, Kevin M, Panozzo, Catherine A, Mor, Vincent, Gravenstein, Stefan

“…Abstract There is large county-level geographic variation in pneumonia and influenza hospitalizations among short-stay and long-stay long-term care facility…”
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Operationalizing an integrative socio‐ecological framework in support of global monitoring of land degradation by Pricope, Narcisa G., Daldegan, Gabriel A., Zvoleff, Alex, Mwenda, Kevin M., Noon, Monica, Lopez‐Carr, David

“…Despite sustained global efforts to avoid, reduce, and reverse land degradation, estimates of land degradation nationally and regionally vary considerably…”
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Featured Front Cover by Pricope, Narcisa G., Daldegan, Gabriel A., Zvoleff, Alex, Mwenda, Kevin M., Noon, Monica, Lopez‐Carr, David

“…The cover image is based on the Research Article Operationalizing an integrative socio‐ecological framework in support of global monitoring of land degradation…”
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Coal exploitation and income inequality: Testing the resource curse with econometric analyses of household survey data from northwestern China by Wen, Qi, Li, Jin, Mwenda, Kevin M., Ervin, Daniel, Chatterjee, Maya, Lopez‐Carr, David

“…Coal resources have always been an important driving force for macroeconomic growth and GDP growth in resource‐rich regions. However, this growth has also…”
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Climate-Related Child Undernutrition in the Lake Victoria Basin: An Integrated Spatial Analysis of Health Surveys, NDVI, and Precipitation Data by Lopez-Carr, David, Mwenda, Kevin M., Pricope, Narcisa G., Kyriakidis, Phaedon C., Jankowska, Marta M., Weeks, John, Funk, Chris, Husak, Gregory, Michaelsen, Joel

“…Despite growing research into the socio-economic aspects of vulnerability <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1 ref2 ref3"> [1] -<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref4">[4]…”
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Incorporating geographical factors with artificial neural networks to predict reference values of erythrocyte sedimentation rate by Yang, Qingsheng, Mwenda, Kevin M, Ge, Miao

“…The measurement of the Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) value is a standard procedure performed during a typical blood test. In order to formulate a…”
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Indoor and outdoor air pollution and lung cancer in New Hampshire and Vermont by Sloan, Chantel D, Andrew, Angeline S, Gruber, Joann F, Mwenda, Kevin M, Moore, Jason H, Onega, Tracy, Karagas, Margaret R, Shi, Xun, Duell, Eric J

“…Indoor and outdoor air pollution is known to contribute to increased lung cancer incidence. This study is the first to address the contribution of home heating…”
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Identifying regional variation in place visit behavior during a global pandemic by McKenzie, Grant, Mwenda, Kevin

“…The emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in 2019 lead to a global pandemic that altered the activity behavior of most people on our planet. While government…”
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A spatial analysis of climate-related child malnutrition in the Lake Victoria Basin by Lopez-Carr, David, Mwenda, Kevin M., Pricope, Narcisa G., Kyriakidis, Phaedon C., Jankowska, Marta M., Weeks, John, Funk, Chris, Husak, Gregory, Michaelsen, Joel

“…Despite growing research into the socio-economic aspects of vulnerability [1-3], relatively little work has linked population dynamics with climate change…”
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