scholarly journals 1194WebGIS in epidemiology: Lessons from LionVu Usability Assessment within Pennsylvania, United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Geyer ◽  
Fritz Kessler ◽  
Eugene Lengerich
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Usability Assessment ◽  
Mapping Tool ◽  
Training Materials ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Novel Applications

Abstract Focus of Presentation LionVu, a web-based mapping tool using Leaflet JavaScript, was recently redesigned to better meet the needs of clinical, educational, and epidemiological audiences within Pennsylvania, United States, containing publicly available health-related and demographic data sets. In addition, the LionVu Usability Assessment, a 50-question online survey, was conducted to assess whether LionVu’s functionality and improved interface met the needs of its intended audiences. The aim of this qualitative data analysis was to assess the themes of the open-ended questions of the LionVu Usability Assessment to improve the tool. Findings Invitations to the LionVu Usability Assessment were sent in Spring 2020 (n = 123), with 23 who began (55% female), but only 10 completed the survey. The 23 participants were from academia (n = 10), professional settings (n = 10) or missing (n = 3). Six themes emerged as critical to improve LionVu’s functionality: improving documentation and training materials, enhancing map customizability, including tabular displays below the maps, adjusting the colour schema, saving outputs as files, and displaying maps side-by-side. Conclusions/Implications LionVu fills a niche in the health community by giving clinical, educational, and epidemiological audiences the ability to visualize and utilize health data at various levels of aggregations and geographical scales (i.e., state, county, zip code, etc.). Novel applications like LionVu can serve data for future purposes such as mapping and graphing in epidemiology. Key messages The usability study of LionVu provided important feedback for its future development. Lessons and best practices on developing comparable WebGIS applications, for clinical, educational, and epidemiological audiences, are addressed.

scholarly journals LionVu 2.0 Usability Assessment for Pennsylvania, United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 619
Author(s):  
Nathaniel R. Geyer ◽  
Fritz C. Kessler ◽  
Eugene J. Lengerich
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Unexpected Finding ◽  
State University ◽  
Doctorate Degree ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
Usability Assessment ◽  
Mapping Tool ◽  
Penn State

The Penn State Cancer Initiative implemented LionVu 1.0 (Penn State University, United States) in 2017 as a web-based mapping tool to educate and inform public health professionals about the cancer burden in Pennsylvania and 28 counties in central Pennsylvania, locally known as the catchment area. The purpose of its improvement, LionVu 2.0, was to assist investigators answer person–place–time questions related to cancer and its risk factors by examining several data variables simultaneously. The primary objective of this study was to conduct a usability assessment of a prototype of LionVu 2.0 which included area- and point-based data. The assessment was conducted through an online survey; 10 individuals, most of whom had a masters or doctorate degree, completed the survey. Although most participants had a favorable view of LionVu 2.0, many had little to no experience with web mapping. Therefore, it was not surprising to learn that participants wanted short 10–15-minute training videos to be available with future releases, and a simplified user-interface that removes advanced functionality. One unexpected finding was the suggestion of using LionVu 2.0 for teaching and grant proposals. The usability study of the prototype of LionVu 2.0 provided important feedback for its future development.

scholarly journals Predictors Associated with Health-Related Heat Risk Perception of Urban Citizens in Germany

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Beckmann ◽  
Michael Hiete
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
High Temperatures ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Heat Risk ◽  
The Impact

The rising probability of extremely high temperatures and an increasing number of consecutive hot days caused by climate change—combined with the impact of these high temperatures on human health—is widely discussed in the literature. There are calls for the development of heatwave adaptation measures by governmental and scientific institutions. In this research, the predictors of health-related heat risk perception of urban citizens in Augsburg, Germany, were investigated. An online survey was conducted with 468 citizens, asking about their heat risk perception, knowledge about heat risks, and demographic data and health information. Statistical methods (Spearman correlation, unpaired t-test, ANOVA and multiple regression) were used to determine which factors were significant and relevant. The results show that the knowledge of heat risks, heat risk sensitivity and an external locus of control are the most important factors for heat risk perception. The health implication score and chronic disease show significant effects in descriptive statistics. Furthermore, younger people showed the highest heat risk perception of all age groups. Surprisingly, income, education, living alone and gender did not play a role in heat risk perception. The findings imply a need for better and intensified heat risk communication in urban areas—especially among elderly people—and thus are important for creating acceptance towards heat wave risks, which is a prerequisite of willingness to adapt.

Natural Area Forests in US Cities: Opportunities and Challenges

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara C Pregitzer ◽  
Sarah Charlop-Powers ◽  
Mark A Bradford
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Us Cities

Abstract Not all urban greenspace is the same. Natural area forests can provision more benefits than designed landscapes, and healthy natural area forests can provide more benefits than degraded and invaded forests. Yet there is little information about the scale of natural areas in cities and their management systems. We used data sets on city parkland from across the United States and surveyed practitioners to understand urban natural area forest extent and management. We find that urban natural areas are a dominant greenspace landcover, accounting for 68% of total city parkland across 96 of the most populous cities in the United States in 2019. In the same cities over a five-year period (2014–2019), natural area parkland decreased by 4% (15,264 hectares). At municipal scales, most cities are managing forested natural areas to conserve native species. Across the 108 organizations and 92 cities that responded to our online survey, many different management interventions are being used to steer forest structure and composition. These activities and their outcomes are being tracked nearly 70% of the time by the managing organizations, suggesting a strong data basis for adaptive management. However, challenges exist: 94% of organizations cite invasive species and limited funding as primary challenges. Lack of data and low public awareness of the value of natural areas are also considered primary challenges by more than 70% of the organizations surveyed. As cities embark on efforts to expand and improve greenspace, protecting natural area parkland from development and addressing the challenges managers of these ecosystems face are two very important goals.

scholarly journals Use of Web-Based Health Services in Individuals With and Without Symptoms of Hypochondria: Survey Study (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane Eichenberg ◽  
Markus Schott
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Health Anxiety ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Online Health Information ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Health Related

BACKGROUND An increasing number of people consult physicians because of distressing information found online. Cyberchondria refers to the phenomenon of health anxiety because of online health information. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine online health research of individuals with and without symptoms of hypochondria and their impact on health anxiety as well as behavior. METHODS An online survey was conducted. Demographic data, health-related internet use, and general health behavior were assessed. The illness attitude scale was used to record symptoms of hypochondria. RESULTS The final sample consisted of N=471 participants. More than 40% (188/471) of participants showed at least some symptoms of hypochondria. Participants with symptoms of hypochondria used the internet more frequently for health-related purposes and also frequented more online services than individuals without symptoms. Most online health services were rated as more reliable by individuals with symptoms of hypochondria. Changes to behavior such as doctor hopping or ordering nonprescribed medicine online were considered more likely by individuals with symptoms of hypochondria. CONCLUSIONS Results show that individuals with symptoms of hypochondria do not turn to online research as a result of lacking alternatives but rather consult health services on- as well as offline.

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Employment Issues in the United States

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 58-69
Author(s):  
Marlene Kim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Pacific Islanders ◽  
Native Hawaiians ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
High Poverty ◽  
Unemployment Rates

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in the United States face problems of discrimination, the glass ceiling, and very high long-term unemployment rates. As a diverse population, although some Asian Americans are more successful than average, others, like those from Southeast Asia and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs), work in low-paying jobs and suffer from high poverty rates, high unemployment rates, and low earnings. Collecting more detailed and additional data from employers, oversampling AAPIs in current data sets, making administrative data available to researchers, providing more resources for research on AAPIs, and enforcing nondiscrimination laws and affirmative action mandates would assist this population.

An Analysis of Dental Implants Survival and Success

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (9) ◽  
pp. 2465-2466
Author(s):  
Iustin Olariu ◽  
Roxana Radu ◽  
Teodora Olariu ◽  
Andrada Christine Serafim ◽  
Ramona Amina Popovici ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Retrospective Cohort Study ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Retrospective Cohort ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Kaplan Meier ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Health Related

Osseointegration of a dental implant may encounter a variety of problems caused by various factors, as prior health-related problems, patients� habits and the technique of the implant inserting. Retrospective cohort study of 70 patients who received implants between January 2011- April 2016 in one dental unit, with Kaplan-Meier method to calculate the probability of implants�s survival at 60 months. The analysis included demographic data, age, gender, medical history, behavior risk factors, type and location of the implant. For this cohort the implants�survival for the first 6 months was 92.86% compared to the number of patients and 97.56% compared to the number of total implants performed, with a cumulative failure rate of 2.43% after 60 months. Failures were focused exclusively on posterior mandible implants, on the percentage of 6.17%, odds ratio (OR) for these failures being 16.76 (P = 0.05) compared with other localisations of implants, exclusively in men with median age of 42 years.

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