UW-COR UW Center for Obesity Research Urban Form Lab New Methods For Measuring Access To Food Sources Philip Hurvitz, PhC Urban Form Lab College of Architecture & Urban Planning University of Washington Research to Policy Briefing with Food Standards, Australia/New Zeala September 6, 2007
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UW-CORUW Center for Obesity Research
Urban Form Lab
New Methods For Measuring Access To Food Sources
Philip Hurvitz, PhCUrban Form LabCollege of Architecture & Urban PlanningUniversity of Washington
Research to Policy Briefing with Food Standards, Australia/New Zealand
September 6, 2007
UW-COR Slide 2 (of 19) PMH
Overview
Importance of location in public health Typical representations of location Fine-scaled approaches to
representation and analysis of location Future directions in spatial
representations for public health surveillance and intervention
UW-COR Slide 3 (of 19) PMH
Overview
Importance of location in public health Typical representations of location Fine-scaled approaches to
representation and analysis of location Future directions in spatial
representations for public health surveillance and intervention
UW-COR Slide 4 (of 19) PMH
Importance of location in epidemiology & public health “…the curse causeless shall not come”
–Proverbs 26:2 Exposure to disease-causing conditions
and agents is spatially and temporally bound
Epidemiology is fundamentally a spatial science
Has medical scienceignored location inrecent decades?
UW-COR Slide 5 (of 19) PMH
Importance of location in epidemiology & public health Epidemiology and public health are interested
in population-wide effects, … but … Population-wide effects can only be
ascertained from individual-level measurements
GIS allows the measurement of individual characteristics within an explicitly spatial context
If location is an important factor in a public health issue, GIS should be incorporated as a data management and analysis tool
UW-COR Slide 6 (of 19) PMH
Overview
Importance of location in public health Typical representations of location Fine-scaled approaches to
representation and analysis of location Future directions in spatial
representations for public health surveillance and intervention
UW-COR Slide 7 (of 19) PMH
Typical representations of location
Area-based representations are popular Easily created from simple statistical