Name: International Medical Geography Symposium (IMGS) 2024
Start: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-19T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Georgia State University College of Law

A geographically-explicit ecological momentary assessment approach (GEMA) on the association between mental wellbeing and micro urban spaces along daily mobility path. (in session "Paper Presentations")

A place-based approach to examining multimorbidity: physical and social neighbourhood features and the development of multiple long-term health conditions (in session "Paper Presentations")

A qualitative approach of the environmental determinants of stress and their situational factors: The FragMent project (in session "Paper Presentations")

Access and disparities in public healthcare in Bangladesh: A case study of Chittagong Hill Tracts (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Accounting for the prevalence of chronic conditions in an agent-based model for COVID-19 hospitalizations (in session "Paper Presentations")

An image tells more than a thousand words: Mapping place perception through strhrougeet view images, crowdsourced stated preferences and artificial intelligence (in session "Poster Presentations")

ANALYSIS OF USE PATTERNS & GEO- ACCESS TO HEALTH FACILITIES: A CASE OF URBAN RURAL COMMUNITIES IN NIGERIA (in session "Paper Presentations")

Applying a Trauma-Informed Spaces of Care Model for Programming Solutions for Homeless Substance Users (in session "Paper Presentations")

Assessing Geographic Provider Access by Therapist Type for Children with Autism in Missouri (in session "Paper Presentations")

Assessing Spatial Patterns of Dengue Incidence in Nepal for 2022 And 2023: A Local Indicator of Spatial Association (LISA) Approach (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Assessing the Role of Small Food Retail in Alleviating Food Deserts (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Beyond Smoking: A Geospatial Investigation of Factors Associated with Lung and Bronchus Cancer Risk in Pennsylvania (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Building Carer-friendly Workplaces in Canada: Examining the Uptake of Standardized Tools (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Buses Depart GSU to Tallulah Falls (in session "Conference Event")

Buses Depart to GSU (in session "Conference Event")

Buses Depart to Helen, GA (in session "Conference Event")

Buses Depart to Limoges Cellars, GA (in session "Conference Event")

Change in the number of new takeaway food outlets associated with adoption of management zones around schools: a natural experimental evaluation in England (in session "Paper Presentations")

Characterization of a swine interstate movement network in Ohio using dashboard (in session "Student Paper Competition")

ChiVes: Integrating Chicago Environmental Justice Data, Researchers, and Communities with Decentralized Web Architecture, Open GIS, and Participatory Design (in session "Paper Presentations")

Climate crisis adaptivity and mitigation potential in urban primary healthcare in Ghana and Germany (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Combining map-based questionnaire, GEMA, and vocal biomarkers to investigate the environmental determinants of stress: The FragMent study protocol and pilot (in session "Paper Presentations")

Communicable Disease Spatiotemporal Cluster Detection: Leveraging Data to Prevent Infection (in session "Paper Presentations")

Community Characteristics and Their Influence on Pandemic Resilience During Shanghai's SARSCoV-2b Surge (in session "Student Paper Competition")

COVID-19 impacts on the health and wellbeing of older adults in Sub-Saharan Africa: A case study from Uganda (in session "Paper Presentations")

COVID-19, place-based vulnerabilities, and maternal and infant health in Michigan (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Creative research methods for approaching the role of space and time in health geography (in session "Panel Discussion")

Daily Mobility And Environmental Determinants Of Stress In Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) And GPS Studies : A Scoping Review (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Delving into Reproductive Health Challenges: A Qualitative Inquiry among Rural Meo-Muslim Women in Ujina Village, Haryana (in session "Paper Presentations")

Disparities in canine rabies burden: An analysis of high-resolution spatial data from Arequipa, Peru (in session "Poster Presentations")

Disruption & The Impact on Rural Mental Health (in session "Paper Presentations")

Distance to Care: Measuring Temporal Variability in Care Access (in session "Paper Presentations")

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Emergency Calls in Rhode Island (in session "Paper Presentations")

Environmental behaviours and concerns, experience of climate change events, and wellbeing outcomes: a socio-spatial analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study. (in session "Paper Presentations")

Environmental Justice & Green Space Access: Disability & Socio-Spatial Inequities (in session "Paper Presentations")

Estimating block level malaria fever risk zones of West Bengal in India using space-time conditional autoregressive model (in session "Paper Presentations")

Estimating the Spatiotemporally Heterogeneous Impact of Population and Environmental Factors on Malaria Vaccine Efficacy in Sub-Saharan Africa (in session "Paper Presentations")

Evaluation of the co-influence of heat index, social vulnerability index, and neighborhood factors on crime rate - a case study of Baltimore City (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Examining Spatial Disparity of Primary Healthcare Service in South Korea: A Spatial-Temporal Discrepancy Approach (in session "Paper Presentations")

Examining the Contribution of the Neighborhood Built Environment to the Relationship Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Early Childhood Development in 205,000 Australian Children (in session "Paper Presentations")

Exploring economic and psycho-social impacts of public health emergency measures in Guinea. (in session "Paper Presentations")

Exploring if and how equity and inclusion are considered in neighbourhood revitalization projects: A case study of downtown Sherbrooke, Canada (in session "Paper Presentations")

Exploring the relationships between housing and food for Latinx newcomers in Toronto (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Exploring the role of land cover on fowl cholera outbreaks in midwestern commercial poultry sites (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Factors related to being a “transmitter” or a “transmittee”: a spatial Bayesian modeling analysis of M. tuberculosis whole genome sequence data (in session "Paper Presentations")

Gender-based violence in WASH: A threat to global health security (in session "Paper Presentations")

Gentrification, mental health, and well-being: a scoping review to document associations and pathways (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Geographical distribution of mailed survey responses about flood risk perception (in session "Poster Presentations")

Geospatial indicators for urban planning – lessons from around the world (in session "Panel Discussion")

Geospatial Modeling for Watersheds Delineation: An Approach for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Monitoring and Assessment in Alabama Surface Waters (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Global positioning system-based food environment exposures, diet-related, and cardiometabolic health outcomes: a systematic review and research agenda (in session "Poster Presentations")

Health Consequences of Rural-Urban Migration on Older Adults Living in Rural China (in session "Student Paper Competition")

How is grocery shopping completed in household with children? Gender gaps and typologies of grocery shopping in four Canadian metropolises (in session "Paper Presentations")

How to simulate infectious disease spreading in a high-dense city: a 3D agent-based model for 2022 Hong Kong COVID-19 Omicron wave (in session "Paper Presentations")

Impact of Climate Change on Vector Species Suitability in Arkansas (in session "Poster Presentations")

Impact of residential mobility on associations between historical redlining, gentrification, and life expectancy at birth in Philadelphia metropolitan area (in session "Paper Presentations")

Impacts of covid-19 induced income changes on mental and psychosocial health in Guinea. (in session "Paper Presentations")

Incorporating Queueing Theory into a Spatial Optimization Framework to Improve Mass Vaccination Programs (in session "Poster Presentations")

Inland flooding – mapping emergency department diagnoses with social vulnerability and flood risk to identify targeted educational outreach (in session "Poster Presentations")

Inter-continental analysis on accessibility to vaccination service during COVID-19 pandemic (in session "Paper Presentations")

Intersecting inequities in health and disease management: the experiences of racialized immigrants in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic (in session "Paper Presentations")

Investigating the relationship between drug use practices and mobility patterns among people who inject drugs in urban environments (in session "Paper Presentations")

Is my neighborhood healthy? Comparison of community stakeholders’ perception using qualitative GIS (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Is the availability and quality of local early childhood education and care services associated with young children’s mental health at school entry? (in session "Paper Presentations")

Jackson water crisis and its relationship to health inequities against black communities (in session "Paper Presentations")

Knowledge translation for equity action in health geography (in session "Panel Discussion")

Life Course ‘Cognability’: Examining Neighborhoods, Health Behaviors, and Health Disparities (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Lunch in Helen, GA (in session "Conference Event")

Lung Cancer Risk and Its Potential Association with PM2.5 in Bagmati Province, Nepal - A Spatiotemporal Study From 2012 to 2021 (in session "Paper Presentations")

Malaria Transmission Scenarios in the Brazilian Amazon (in session "Paper Presentations")

Mapping Inequalities: A Geospatial Study of Opioid Treatment Disparities in Florida (in session "Paper Presentations")

Mapping risk of gastrointestinal diseases through association of storm events (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Maternal Health Accessibility in Dallas and Austin, 2010-2020 (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Mobility, ICT, and health: a built environment investigation of older Chinese migrants' social isolation and loneliness (in session "Paper Presentations")

Modeling anthrax outbreak dynamics under varying levels of vaccine interventions across different provinces in Vietnam (in session "Paper Presentations")

Modelling the Complexities of Built Environment and Health: A Bayesian Network Approach with Expert Knowledge (in session "Paper Presentations")

Multi-generational Impacts of the Uganda 1972 Expulsion Decree for South Asians; creative strategies for place-making practices and health as resiliency in new geographies (in session "Paper Presentations")

Neighborhood Deprivation and Postpartum Readmission Location and Timing (in session "Paper Presentations")

Online vs. In-Store: How food outlet type is linked to dietary hehaviours in Great Britain (in session "Paper Presentations")

Ontology Learning System (OLS) (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Optimal Spatial Access Measurement for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Toward Medication Success and Social Justice (in session "Paper Presentations")

Potential and Revealed Accessibility to Cancer Care in the United States and The Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (in session "Paper Presentations")

Prenatal exposure to green space and mental health in early adolescence: Findings from the TRAILS study (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Prevalence and determinants of Low Dietary Diversity (LDD) among men in India: Evidence from a nationally representative survey. (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Proximity to Parks and Prevalence of Depression among Adults across North Carolina Census Tracts: An Ecological Study (in session "Poster Presentations")

Quantifying livestock commingling in mapped areas of sustained Brucella spp. transmission in Kazakhstan (in session "Poster Presentations")

Residence in a Coastal communities in adolescence and health in young adulthood: an 11-year follow-up of English UKHLS youth questionnaire respondents. (in session "Paper Presentations")

Resilience Amidst Multiple Crises: Lessons from "Saving Little Lives" Project During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Siege and War in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia (in session "Paper Presentations")

Results of community pilot for connecting people experiencing cancer with social needs (in session "Paper Presentations")

Retailer Responses to Public Consultations on the Adoption of Takeaway Management Zones Around Schools: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis (in session "Paper Presentations")

Seasonal Impact of Greenspace on Child Opportunity: An Analysis of NDVI and the Child Opportunity Index Across US Census Tracts (in session "Poster Presentations")

Sleep problems mediate the association between mental health and outdoor light pollution (in session "Paper Presentations")

Spatial analysis of the charitable food system in Georgia (in session "Paper Presentations")

Spatio-temporal distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in Escherichia coli in the US, 2000-2023. (in session "Paper Presentations")

Spatiotemporal trends and environmental correlates of Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus abundance in Haiti (in session "Student Paper Competition")

STUDY ON ABUSE AND ITS ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG ELDERLY POPULATION OF KAMALAMAI MUNICIPALITY OF SINDHULI DISTRICT (in session "Poster Presentations")

Sustaining a livelihood heritage: Climate challenges to Mexican fishing communities’ health, well-being, and identity. (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Tallulah Falls (in session "Conference Event")

The Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of Galamsey (Illegal Small-Scale Gold Mining) on Selected Communities in Ghana (in session "Student Paper Competition")

The impact that natural disasters (floods) in the city of Shkoder had on increasing of Leptospirosis disease around 2010-2011. (in session "Student Paper Competition")

The periphery of the periphery: civil society organizations navigating inequities in access to water, sanitation, and hygiene in Rio de Janeiro (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Therapeutic landscapes and the functioning-based WHO approach of healthy ageing: Results from the German Longitudinal Urban Cohort Ageing Study (LUCAS) (in session "Paper Presentations")

They’re Sacred Fires, not fire pits: A spatial case study on three, traditional healing spaces in Canada’s largest and oldest mental health hospital (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Tracing Food Accessibility and Consumer Behavior in Atlanta Using Mobility Data (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Travel time to hospital and patient outcomes: Why do we use the 30-minute rule? (in session "Paper Presentations")

Unequal Scene and Health Inequality in Rapidly Growing City of Akure: The Nigerian Reality. (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Unpacking Hospitalization Patterns among Resettled Refugees: A Data Linkage Study (in session "Paper Presentations")

Unwind with Wine and Music at Limoges Cellars (in session "Conference Event")

Urban blue and green spaces for subjective well-being and sustainable urban development (in session "Paper Presentations")

Using geographic self-organizing map (Geo-SOM) to examine infectious disease outbreaks: A study of 2022 COVID-19 Omicron Wave in Hong Kong (in session "Paper Presentations")

Using GIS to Examine the Relationship Between Residential Segregation and Mental Healthcare Accessibility in Omaha, NE. (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Visualizing racialized discriminatory mortgage loan denial, poor mental health, and their association in the U.S. using the “Housing-Health-Disparities Visualizer” (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Vocal Biomarkers Of Stress In Real Life Environments: Study Design And Insights From The Fragment Project And Colive Voice Study (in session "Student Paper Competition")

Water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and homelessness in Germany. Co-defining challenges, co-designing methods, co-creating solutions (in session "Paper Presentations")

Where should we build the next maternal health facilities in Ethiopia? A geospatial approach to emergency obstetric and newborn care facility allocation (in session "Student Paper Competition")

‘What Do I Ask and Who Do I Ask?’: Exploring the role of evidence-informed advocacy for individuals living with a chronic illness (in session "Paper Presentations")