Editorial: Applications of geospatial information technologies and spatial statistics in health services research

Chao Song; Xiuli Wang; Erjia Ge; Xun Shi; Jay Pan

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2023.1349985

Editorial: Applications of geospatial information technologies and spatial statistics in health services research

Front Public Health. 2024 Jan 4:11:1349985. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1349985. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Chao Song^{1

2}, Xiuli Wang^{1

3}, Erjia Ge⁴, Xun Shi⁵, Jay Pan^{1

6}

Affiliations

¹ HEOA Group, West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
² West China-PUMC C.C. Chen Institute of Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
³ Institute for Healthy Cities and West China Research Centre for Rural Health Development, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
⁴ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁵ Department of Geography, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States.
⁶ China Center for South Asian Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

No abstract available

Keywords: Geographic Information Science; health and medical geography; health econometrics; spatial econometrics; spatial health statistics.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Geographic Information Systems*
Health Services Research
Information Technology*

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. The study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42071379, 72374149, 72204175, 72104158, 72104159, and 41701448), Sichuan Science and Technology Department (2022NSFSC0642), Medical Science and Technology Project of Sichuan Provincial Health Commission (21PJ067), Open Project of the Think Tank to Construct Ecological Protective Screens for the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers (202210), and Fund for Introducing Talents of Sichuan University (YJ202157).