Dr Zhiqiang Feng
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Abstract: Over the last decades routinely collected data have been increasingly used in health research including geographical research of health in the western countries. This lecture introduces the latest development in this area focusing on its use in health geography. A large amount of health and socioeconomic data for individuals is routinely acquired and stored electronically by various administrative agencies and departments in western countries. The data can be linked statistically or deterministically providing a full life trajectory for individuals and generating huge opportunities for health research. In addition the individual level data can be linked to geographical data via geographical identifiers available from address geocoding which allows cross-sectional and longitudinal investigation of the relationship between environmental exposure and health outcomes clinically measured in the patient records. This talk is mainly based on the research in the UK, particularly in Scotland. It firstly introduces the definition of routinely collected data, advantages of such data, and challenges of using the data. After a brief introduction to potential mechanisms linking place with health, the talk gives a few case studies that use routinely collected data in health geography.
Host：Assist. Prof. Yanxia Zhang
Nanjing Normal University
Time：07:00pm Nov 2, 2022 (Beijing time)
Zoom ID: 816 9975 7155
Bilibili: 25002335
