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The use of Virtual Reality (VR) to assess the impact of geographical environments on walking and cycling: a systematic literature review
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Longitudinal study of changes in greenness exposure, physical activity and sedentary behavior in the ORISCAV-LUX cohort study
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Using image segmentation models to analyse high-resolution earth observation data: new tools to monitor disease risks in changing environments
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Investigating young children’s physical activity through time and place
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Geographical tracking and mapping of coronavirus disease COVID-19/severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic and associated events around the world: how 21st century GIS technologies are supporting the global fight against outbreaks and epidemics
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Spatial patterns of natural hazards mortality in the United States
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Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and sensor web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management: trends, OGC standards and application examples
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Towards evidence-based, GIS-driven national spatial health information infrastructure and surveillance services in the United Kingdom
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Web GIS in practice III: creating a simple interactive map of England's Strategic Health Authorities using Google Maps API, Google Earth KML, and MSN Virtual Earth Map Control
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A leader among the field, International Journal of Health Geographics is an interdisciplinary, open access journal publishing internationally significant studies of geospatial information systems and science applications in health and healthcare. With an exceptional author satisfaction rate and a quick time to first decision, the journal caters to readers across an array of healthcare disciplines globally.
Editors-in-Chief
Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Lan Mu, PhD, University of Georgia, United States
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Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Editor-in-Chief
Maged N. Kamel Boulos is a British scientist and Full Professor (Medical and Public Health Informatics) at the School of Medicine (FMUL), University of Lisbon, Portugal.
He worked before that at Sun Yat-sen University (China), University of the Highlands and Islands (Scotland), University of Plymouth, University of Bath, and City, University of London. He has more than 30 years of combined clinical and informatics experience, spanning the clinical, industry and academic/research worlds (1990-2022).
As well as his medical degree and Master’s in Clinical Dermatology, he holds a Master’s in Medical Informatics from King's College, University of London, and a PhD in Measurement & Information in Medicine (GIS) from City, University London.
Maged teaches and has >180 publications (GS h-index: 49) on a specialist range of medical/public health informatics and geoinformatics topics. He is Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and was co-Chair of WG IV/4 within ISPRS Commission IV, 2008-2012. He is the Founding Editor (2001) and Editor-in-Chief of the MEDLINE-indexed International Journal of Health Geographics. His research has received wide media coverage and is/has been funded by national and international bodies, including World Health Organization EMRO and EURO; European Commission; UK TSB KTP Programme; UK AHRC; and Public Health Agency of Canada (funding one of his former PhD students).
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