Improving spatial data in health geographics: a practical approach for testing data to measure children’s physical activity and food environments using Google Street View
Abstract Background Geographic information systems (GIS) are often used to examine the association between both physical activity and nutrition environments, and children’s health. It is often assumed that geospatial datasets are accurate and complete. Furthermore, GIS datasets regularly lack metada...
Main Authors: | Jesse Whitehead, Melody Smith, Yvonne Anderson, Yijun Zhang, Stephanie Wu, Shreya Maharaj, Niamh Donnellan |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-08-01
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Series: | International Journal of Health Geographics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-021-00288-8 |
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