Citation

Culyba AJ, Guo W, Branas CC, Miller E, Wiebe DJ. Health Place 2018; 49: 39-49.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.11.007

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper uses data from a population-based case control study of daily activities and assault injury to examine residence-based versus actual path-based approaches to measuring environmental exposures that pose risks for violence among adolescents. Defining environmental exposures based on participant home address resulted in significant misclassification compared to gold standard daily travel path measures. Dividing participant daily travel paths into origin-destination segments, we explore a method for defining spatial counterfactuals by comparing actual trip path exposures to shortest potential trip path exposures. Spatial methods explored herein can be utilized in future research to more accurately quantify environmental exposures and associations with health outcomes.

Language: en

Keywords

Adolescent health; Environmental exposure; Epidemiological methods; Spatial analysis; Violence