석면노출연구를 위한 공간분석기법

• 영문명: Spatial Analysis Methods for Asbestos Exposure Research
• 발행기관: 한국환경보건학회
• 저자명: 김주영(Juyoung Kim) 강동묵(Dongmug Kang)
• 간행물 정보: 『1. 한국환경보건학회지』제38권 제5호, 369~379쪽, 전체 11쪽
• 주제분류: 공학 > 환경공학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.10.30

영문 초록

Objectives: Spatial analysis is useful for understanding complicated causal relationships. This paper focuses trends and appling methods for spatial analysis associated with environmental asbestos exposure. Methods: Literature review and reflection of experience of authors were conducted to know academic background of spatial analysis, appling methods on epidemiology and asbestos exposure. Results: Spatial analysis based on spatial autocorrelation provides a variety of methods through which to conduct mapping, cluster analysis, diffusion, interpolation, and identification. Cause of disease occurrence can be investigated through spatial analysis. Appropriate methods can be applied according to contagiousness and continuity. Spatial analysis for asbestos exposure source is needed to study asbestos related diseases. Although a great amount of research has used spatial analysis to study exposure assessment and distribution of disease occurrence, these studies tend to focus on the construction of a thematic map without different forms of analysis. Recently, spatial analysis has been advanced by merging with web tools, mobile computing, statistical packages, social network analysis, and big data. Conclusions: Because the trend in spatial analysis has evolved from simple marking into a variety of forms of analyses, environmental researchers including asbestos exposure study are required to be aware of recent trends.

키워드

asbestos spatial analysis spatial epidemiology geographic information system (GIS)