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III. CONCLUSION Spatial analysis tools help monitor and manage public health. When conducting these analyses, it is crucial to ensure patients’ privacy by masking their geolocation while also choosing the ideal spatial resolution to reduce stigma and geographic uncertainty. In the beginning of an outbreak or when dealing with rare cases of a disease, spatial smoo- thing methods and the calculation of uncertainty intervals should be considered to avoid random fluctuation and unreliable rates. Health geography can only mirror reality when the quality of the data is assured, therefore, the completeness and representativeness of data are essential to understand the space-time dynamics of a disease. Geographical com- parisons can be useful to assess the evolution of the disease between and within areas; however, these comparisons can only be viable if possible sources of bias are taken into account. Thus, on the verge of a public health crisis the collaboration of biomedical, social, and natural sciences experts is essential for making faster and careful informed decisions."
Fonte: THE IMPORTANCE OF SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC FOR HEALTH GEOGRAPHY: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES Ana Isabel Ribeiro1 Cláudia Jardim Santos2
Termo equivalente: medical geography
Definição: "Health geographers have generally been content to adopt measures of distance, access and the lack of resources as the metrics of social (in)justice without critically placing their research in a framework of social justice. The purpose of this review is twofold: first, to examine recent research in health geography under three themes – access to care, neighbourhoods, and health and environmental justice; second, to introduce a debate about idealist theory as a way of introducing a theory of social justice into health geography which might prove valuable to underpin what many health geographers are trying to do in their research on access to care, neighbourhoods, and health and environmental justice."
Fonte: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132513498339
Definição em português: "Os geógrafos da saúde geralmente se contentam em adotar medidas de distância, acesso e falta de recursos como métricas de (in) justiça social, sem colocar criticamente suas pesquisas em uma estrutura de justiça social. O objetivo desta revisão é duplo: primeiro, examinar pesquisas recentes em geografia da saúde sob três temas - acesso a cuidados, bairros e justiça sanitária e ambiental; em segundo lugar, para introduzir um debate sobre a teoria idealista como uma forma de introduzir uma teoria de justiça social na geografia da saúde que pode ser valiosa para sustentar o que muitos geógrafos da saúde estão tentando fazer em suas pesquisas sobre acesso a cuidados, bairros e saúde e meio ambiente justiça."
