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Medicine and Health Sciences

Singapore Management University

2014

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The Use Of Geospatial Clustering In Analysing Health Risk Profile, Sue-Mae Yeo, Tin Seong Kam, Kai Xin Thia, Dan Wu Sep 2014

The Use Of Geospatial Clustering In Analysing Health Risk Profile, Sue-Mae Yeo, Tin Seong Kam, Kai Xin Thia, Dan Wu

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Background & Hypothesis: The first law of geography states that “everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things”. This study aims to demonstrate how local indicator of spatial association (LISA) statistics are used to group patients with similar chronic diseases into natural clusters of hotspots found within northern Singapore by incorporating the proximity of their home locations explicitly. Methods: Anonymised chronic patient data collected from Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in 2013 were used for analyses. The data was mapped based on patients' residential addresses. A layer of hexagonal grid objects, each with a …