Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology Reporting Standards (ISLE-ReSt) statement

Peng Jia; Chao Yu; Justin V Remais; Alfred Stein; Yu Liu; Ross C Brownson; Jeroen Lakerveld; Tong Wu; Lijian Yang; Melody Smith; Sherif Amer; Jamie Pearce; Yan Kestens; Mei-Po Kwan; Shengjie Lai; Fei Xu; Xi Chen; Andrew Rundle; Qian Xiao; Hong Xue; Miyang Luo; Li Zhao; Guo Cheng; Shujuan Yang; Xiaolu Zhou; Yan Li; Jenna Panter; Simon Kingham; Andy Jones; Blair T Johnson; Xun Shi; Lin Zhang; Limin Wang; Jianguo Wu; Suzanne Mavoa; Tuuli Toivonen; Kevin M Mwenda; Youfa Wang; W M Monique Verschuren; Roel Vermeulen; Peter James

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102243

Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology Reporting Standards (ISLE-ReSt) statement

Health Place. 2020 Jan:61:102243. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102243. Epub 2019 Dec 4.

Authors

Peng Jia¹, Chao Yu², Justin V Remais³, Alfred Stein⁴, Yu Liu⁵, Ross C Brownson⁶, Jeroen Lakerveld⁷, Tong Wu⁸, Lijian Yang⁹, Melody Smith¹⁰, Sherif Amer¹¹, Jamie Pearce¹², Yan Kestens¹³, Mei-Po Kwan¹⁴, Shengjie Lai¹⁵, Fei Xu¹⁶, Xi Chen¹⁷, Andrew Rundle¹⁸, Qian Xiao¹⁹, Hong Xue²⁰, Miyang Luo²¹, Li Zhao²², Guo Cheng²³, Shujuan Yang²⁴, Xiaolu Zhou²⁵, Yan Li²⁶, Jenna Panter²⁷, Simon Kingham²⁸, Andy Jones²⁹, Blair T Johnson³⁰, Xun Shi³¹, Lin Zhang³², Limin Wang³³, Jianguo Wu³⁴, Suzanne Mavoa³⁵, Tuuli Toivonen³⁶, Kevin M Mwenda³⁷, Youfa Wang³⁸, W M Monique Verschuren³⁹, Roel Vermeulen⁴⁰, Peter James⁴¹

Affiliations

¹ GeoHealth Initiative, Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, 7500, the Netherlands; International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands. Electronic address: p.jia@utwente.nl.
² State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China; International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands.
³ Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
⁴ GeoHealth Initiative, Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, 7500, the Netherlands.
⁵ Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China; International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands.
⁶ Prevention Research Center in St. Louis, Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA; Department of Surgery (Division of Public Health Sciences) and Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, 1081 BT, the Netherlands; Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CG, the Netherlands; Global Geo Health Data Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CB, the Netherlands; International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands.
⁸ Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China; International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands.
⁹ Center for Statistical Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China; Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
¹⁰ International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands; School of Nursing, The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand.
¹¹ International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands; Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-information Management, ITC, University of Twente, Enschede, 7500, the Netherlands.
¹² Centre for Research on Environment Society and Health, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9XP, UK.
¹³ Social and Preventive Medicine Department, Montreal University School of Public Health, Montréal, H3N 1X9, Canada; University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM), Montréal, H2X 0A9, Canada.
¹⁴ Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong; Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong; Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, 3584 CB, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
¹⁵ WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom; Flowminder Foundation, Stockholm, SE-113 55, Sweden; School of Public Health, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, 200032, China.
¹⁶ GeoHealth Initiative, Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, 7500, the Netherlands; International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands; Nanjing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210003, China; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 211100, China.
¹⁷ International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands; Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Yale Climate Change and Health Initiative, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York City, NY, 10032, USA.
¹⁹ International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands; Department of Health and Human Physiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA; Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
²⁰ International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands; Department of Health Behavior and Policy, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23298, USA.
²¹ International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands; Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, 117549, Singapore.
²² International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands; Department of Health Policy and Management, West China School of Public Health/West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China; Research Center for Healthy City Development, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China; Healthy Food Evaluation Research Center, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China.
²³ International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands; Healthy Food Evaluation Research Center, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China; School of Public Health, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China; State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China.
²⁴ International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands; Department of Health-Related Social and Behavioral Sciences, West China School of Public Health, West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China.
²⁵ Department of Geography, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, 76129, USA.
²⁶ Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA.
²⁷ MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK.
²⁸ Department of Geography and Geohealth Laboratory, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 8140, New Zealand.
²⁹ Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ, UK.
³⁰ Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA.
³¹ Department of Geography, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA.
³² Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA; Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 3000, Australia; The University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Melbourne, 3000, Australia.
³³ National Center for Chronic and Non-communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, 100050, China.
³⁴ School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA; School of Sustainability, Julie A. Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA; Center for Human-Environment System Sustainability (CHESS), State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China.
³⁵ Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 3000, Australia.
³⁶ Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland; Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), University of Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland.
³⁷ Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4), Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA; Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA.
³⁸ International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands; Fisher Institute of Health and Well-Being, Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, College of Health, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 47306, USA; Global Health Institute, School of Public Health, Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710061, China.
³⁹ Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CG, the Netherlands; Center for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
⁴⁰ Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CG, the Netherlands; Department of Molecular Epidemiology, Julius Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CG, the Netherlands; MRC/PHE Center for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK.
⁴¹ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.

PMID: 32329723
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102243

Abstract

Spatial lifecourse epidemiology is an interdisciplinary field that utilizes advanced spatial, location-based, and artificial intelligence technologies to investigate the long-term effects of environmental, behavioural, psychosocial, and biological factors on health-related states and events and the underlying mechanisms. With the growing number of studies reporting findings from this field and the critical need for public health and policy decisions to be based on the strongest science possible, transparency and clarity in reporting in spatial lifecourse epidemiologic studies is essential. A task force supported by the International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE) identified a need for guidance in this area and developed a Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology Reporting Standards (ISLE-ReSt) Statement. The aim is to provide a checklist of recommendations to improve and make more consistent reporting of spatial lifecourse epidemiologic studies. The STrengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement for cohort studies was identified as an appropriate starting point to provide initial items to consider for inclusion. Reporting standards for spatial data and methods were then integrated to form a single comprehensive checklist of reporting recommendations. The strength of our approach has been our international and multidisciplinary team of content experts and contributors who represent a wide range of relevant scientific conventions, and our adherence to international norms for the development of reporting guidelines. As spatial, location-based, and artificial intelligence technologies used in spatial lifecourse epidemiology continue to evolve at a rapid pace, it will be necessary to revisit and adapt the ISLE-ReSt at least every 2-3 years from its release.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Big data; Exposome; Exposomics; ISLE; Lifecourse epidemiology; Location-based; Reporting guideline; Reporting standard; Spatial epidemiology; Spatial lifecourse epidemiology.

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

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Advisory Committees
Artificial Intelligence*
Checklist
Cohort Studies
Epidemiologic Studies*
Health Status
Humans
Internationality*
Public Health*
Research Design / standards
Spatial Analysis*

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