The effects of migration on the detection of geographic differences in disease risk. Academic Article

abstract

• Human migration can make it more difficult to detect geographic differences in disease risk because of the spatial diffusion of people originally exposed in a given geographic area. There are also situations where migration can facilitate the detection of disease attributable to environmental hazards. This paper assesses the effects that migration has on the ability to detect regional variability in disease risk. Several characteristics of migration are discussed, including some that are not widely known. Because of regional variations in mobility rates and other characteristics of the migration process, there is substantial regional variation in the ability to detect spatial variation in risk.

authors

• Han, Daikwon

published proceedings

• Soc Sci Med

author list (cited authors)

• Rogerson, P. A., & Han, D.

citation count

• 30

complete list of authors

• Rogerson, Peter A||Han, Daikwon

publication date

• January 2002

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Social Science and Medicine  Journal

keywords

• Employment
• Environmental Health
• Family Characteristics
• Geography
• Health Status Indicators
• Humans
• Incidence
• Lung Neoplasms
• Markov Chains
• Models, Statistical
• Mythology
• New York
• Population Dynamics
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Factors
• Transients And Migrants
• United States

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/s0277-9536(01)00316-1

start page

• 1817

end page

• 1828

volume

• 55

issue

• 10

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0277-9536(01)00316-1