Health Geography
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- The geography of Twitter tweets in January 2015
We do research in the fields of quantitative health geography and spatial epidemiology, that is, studying the spatial and temporal distribution of health outcomes and their locally specific causes so that we know where to intervene to improve health and prevent diseases.
We apply approaches from digital epidemiology and base our research on novel data sources, such as unstructured and semi-structured texts (e.g., geo-referenced social media data) and link these to other data (e.g., official health and environmental statistics, land use and land cover data, etc.) that can be spatially integrated with disease mapping, exposure mapping, and spatial modelling approaches.
Group leader
Group members
Nicolas Schmidheiny
Anna Hug
Michael von Rhein (UZH Kispi, KSW)
Markus Wolf (UZH Psychology)