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A Spatial Inquiry Into Childhood Lead Poisoning In Shelby County, Tennessee, Cem Akkus
A Spatial Inquiry Into Childhood Lead Poisoning In Shelby County, Tennessee, Cem Akkus
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Review of the recent literature suggests that integration of geographical information systems (GIS) into childhood lead exposure studies significantly enhances identifying lead hazards in the environment and determining at risk children. The purpose of this study is to find at-risk areas of childhood lead poisoning as well as determining risk factors in Shelby County, Tennessee. The two common deduplication methods: the first blood lead level (BLL) test result and the highest BLL test result were compared. Kappa statistic was used to investigate the effect of residential mobility on hot spots. Global and local spatial autocorrelations, Moran’s I and Getis and …
Children's Lead Poisoning In The Eastern United States: A Spatial Data Mining Approach, Thaddeus Grace
Children's Lead Poisoning In The Eastern United States: A Spatial Data Mining Approach, Thaddeus Grace
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The focus of this thesis is to determine whether an association rule mining appraoch could be used to uncover associations between socioeconomic variables and childhood lead poisoning in the eastern Unied States. The association rule analysis was able to discover three prominent variables that were linked with childhood lead toxicity. Counties with high rates of holder housing, high single female head of householders, and a low proportion of Hispanic residents were found to be associated with higher rates of childhood lead poisoning. Geographic information systems (GIS) was utilized to visually illustrate the spatial distribution of each of the three association …