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Cancer service areas (CSAs); spatially constrained Leiden method; multiscale; Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) cancer centers; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); USA
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Gis Automated Delineation And Analysis Of Cancer Service Areas In The United States, Changzhen Wang
Gis Automated Delineation And Analysis Of Cancer Service Areas In The United States, Changzhen Wang
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Delineating a meaningful and reliable geographic unit pertaining to cancer care is essential in examining geographic variations in cancer care for better analysis, management, and planning. Public health researchers have devoted great efforts to defining various service areas, which; however, lack scientific rigor or are unrepresentative of the highly specialized cancer care markets, and their methods have become obsolete in the era of big data and high geo-computation. This study develops the “Spatially Constrained Leiden (ScLeiden)” method, a network community detection algorithm in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and applies it to delineate a series of coherent cancer service …