Winter Is Coming: A Socio-Environmental Monitoring and Spatiotemporal Modelling Approach for Better Understanding a Respiratory Disease

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dc.contributor.authorMarek, Lukas
dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Malcolm
dc.contributor.authorEpton, Michael
dc.contributor.authorKingham, S.
dc.contributor.authorStorer, M.
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-30T21:50:25Z
dc.date.available2020-08-30T21:50:25Z
dc.date.issued2018en
dc.date.updated2020-08-27T01:31:38Z
dc.description.abstractChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is a progressive lung disease affecting the respiratory function of every sixth New Zealander and over 300 million people worldwide. In this paper, we explored how the combination of social, demographical and environmental conditions (represented by increased winter air pollution) affected hospital admissions due to COPD in an urban area of Christchurch (NZ).We juxtaposed the hospitalisation data with dynamic air pollution data and census data to investigate the spatiotemporal patterns of hospital admissions. Spatial analysis identified high-risk health hot spots both overall and season specific, exhibiting higher rates in winter months not solely due to air pollution, but rather as a result of its combination with other factors that initiate deterioration of breathing, increasing impairments and lead to the hospitalisation of COPD patients. From this we found that socioeconomic deprivation and air pollution, followed by the age and ethnicity structure contribute the most to the increased winter hospital admissions. This research shows the continued importance of including both individual (composition) and area level (composition) factors when examining and analysing disease patterns.en
dc.identifier.citationMarek L, Campbell M, Epton M, Kingham S, Storer M (2018). Winter Is Coming: A Socio-Environmental Monitoring and Spatiotemporal Modelling Approach for Better Understanding a Respiratory Disease. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 7(11).en
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi7110432
dc.identifier.issn2220-9964
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/100972
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stateden
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), winteren
dc.subjectair pollutionen
dc.subjectdeprivationen
dc.subjectspatiotemporal patternen
dc.subjectclusteringen
dc.subjectGeographically weighted Poisson regression (GWPR)en
dc.subject.anzsrc0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscienceen
dc.subject.anzsrc0909 Geomatic Engineeringen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::40 - Engineering::4013 - Geomatic engineering::401302 - Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modellingen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::42 - Health sciences::4203 - Health services and systems::420308 - Health informatics and information systemsen
dc.titleWinter Is Coming: A Socio-Environmental Monitoring and Spatiotemporal Modelling Approach for Better Understanding a Respiratory Diseaseen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
uc.collegeService Unit
uc.departmentGeospatial Research Institute
uc.departmentSchool of Earth and Environment
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