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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 39-49 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Health and Place |
Volume | 49 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Adolescent health
- Environmental exposure
- Epidemiological methods
- Spatial analysis
- Violence
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health(social science)
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health