Article ; Online: National variation in patterns of bone disease treatment-seeking behaviors
International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, Vol 117, Iss , Pp 103219- (2023)
A study of more than 50,000 hospital admissions between 2008 and 2021
2023
Abstract: Understanding disease treatment-seeking behaviors is a fundamental issue for national and regional healthcare management. However, treatment-seeking behaviors are complex and affected by various factors, including disease incidence, healthcare resources, ...
Abstract | Understanding disease treatment-seeking behaviors is a fundamental issue for national and regional healthcare management. However, treatment-seeking behaviors are complex and affected by various factors, including disease incidence, healthcare resources, and population accessibility to hospitals. Geospatial analysis is a practical approach to investigating treatment-seeking behaviors. Still, methods and cases are limited due to the lack of long-term data, interdisciplinary knowledge, and data analytic techniques. We develop a new paradigm for investigating spatial patterns and factors affecting bone disease treatment-seeking behaviors. We leverage consecutive long-term records of over 50,000 nationwide bone disease patients outside Beijing who had surgeries in a prestigious hospital in Beijing, China. Five categories of patient individual-level geographical and environmental variables are derived from multi-source remote sensing and geospatial data to explain treatment-seeking behaviors. First, we develop a scaling approach to assess the relationships between bone patients and population migration. Next, we develop a treatment-seeking index to measure treatment-seeking behaviors and develop spatial models to identify their regional disparities, i.e., hotspots and coldspots. Finally, we develop spatial heterogeneity models to explore the complex factors affecting treatment-seeking behaviors. Results show that the developed paradigm is effective in examining national variations of the patterns of disease treatment-seeking behaviors. We find that (i) population migration is an effective predictor of the treatment-seeking behaviors of bone patients, (ii) significant hotspots and coldspots are identified for informing regional disparities, and (iii), multiple types of factors affecting the treatment-seeking behaviors through a geospatially overlapped approach. This study pioneers the development of geospatial models and implementation of patient individual-level data derived from satellite remote sensing for ... |
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Keywords | Treatment-seeking behavior ; Bone diseases ; Remote sensing ; Geospatial big data modeling ; Public health management ; Physical geography ; GB3-5030 ; Environmental sciences ; GE1-350 |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Document type | Article ; Online |
Database | BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection) |
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