Seminar given with Basile Chaix at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Mobility and Exposure assessment for Epidemiological Modelling. Organisation: Steven Cummins & Daniel Lewis.
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Yan Kestens - Daily Mobility and Multiple Exposures: Collecting and Using Spatial Data in Health Research
1. Daily Mobility and Multiple
Exposures:
Collecting and Using Spatial
Data in Health Research
Yan Kestens
Montreal University, Social and Preventive Medicine
Montreal Hospital University Research Center (CRCHUM)
SPHERE Lab .org
MAY 14th 2013
2. Context
• Most health data contains limited spatial data
• Yet society increasingly mobile, blurring of spatial and
temporal limits
• Increasing interest in lifecycle / cumulative aspect
• What methods to add spatial to epidemiology?
3. Context
• Most health data contains limited spatial data
• Yet society increasingly mobile, blurring of spatial and
temporal limits
• Increasing interest in lifecycle / cumulative aspect
• What methods to add spatial to epidemiology?
4. Context
• Various methods to collect spatial data that can be used to to
feed epidemiological models and estimate multiple exposures
Mobility surveys
Activity space
questionnaires
Wearable
sensors
Time use
surveys
5. Context
Mobility surveys
Allowed to compute activity space exposure to
multiple food sources
Estimates of multiple exposures for health
survey participants
Association between activity space exposure
and BMI
14. GPS – VERITAS spatial comparison
• Sample of 89 RECORD Cohort Study participants from which
we collected:
– VERITAS activity locations
– 7-day continuous GPS monitoring
– GPS-prompted recall survey data: validation of activity
locations, trips and transportation modes, nature of
activities
15. VERITAS data
Total Home Work
Other
weekly
Other less
than
weekly
Average 15,3 1,0 1,1 7,2 5,9
Median 14,0 1,0 1,0 7,0 5,0
Total of 1,314 self-reported activity locations for 89 participants
HOME WORKPLACE OTHER DESTINATIONS
WEEKLY
LESS THAN
WEEKLY
Average number of reported locations
18. GPS data
- GPS valid fix (raw)
- GPS activity location (kernel density algorithm)
- GPS confirmed location (prompted recall survey)
VERITAS locations
- Self-reported activity locations identified on an
interactive online map (HOME, WORK, OTHER WEEKLY, LESS
THAN WEEKLY)
DISTANCE BETWEEN
AND
21. 0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
HOME WORK OTHER WEEKLY OTHER LESS THAN
WEEKLY
Distanceinmeters Median shortest distance between VERITAS location
and GPS-prompted recall location
24. t0 t1 t2 t3 t5 t6 t7 t8 t9 t10 t11 t12 t13
5 5 5 5 10 5 5 5
t14 t15 t16
20 5 5
Ellapsed time attributed to second of two consecutive GPS data fixes
Sum of individual fix durations = total survey duration
1) Calculation of duration from GPS fixes
x x xx
2) Computation of proportion of survey duration spent within…
100 m
250 m
500 m
1000 m
…of a VERITAS self-reported location
42. 1. How close are GPS data to VERITAS location?
Quite close!
43. 2. How much time is spent around VERITAS
locations?
1. How close are GPS data to VERITAS location?
Quite close!
A lot!
44. 2. How much time is spent around VERITAS
locations?
3. What is the spatial correspondence
between the two point distributions?
1. How close are GPS data to VERITAS location?
Quite close!
A lot!
All depends!
45. CONCLUSIONS
VERITAS an efficient tool to collect precise spatial information on
regular destinations
GPS provides objective measures of mobility, can prompt recall
surveys
Increasing use of embedded GPS sensors, health surveys and
remote patient monitoring
48. Thank you!
SPHERE Lab .org
Benoit Thierry from SPHERELAB Julie Méline from RECORD
All the study participants!
49. References
Chaix, B., Kestens, Y., Perchoux, C., Karusisi, N., Merlo, J., & Labadi, K. (2012). An
interactive mapping tool to assess individual mobility patterns in neighborhood
studies. Am J Prev Med, 43(4), 440-450. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2012.06.026
Chaix, B., Méline, J., Duncan, S., Merrien, C., Karusisi, N., Perchoux, C., Lewin, A., Laba
di, K., Kestens, Y. (2013). GPS tracking in neighborhood and health studies: A step
forward for environmental exposure assessment, a step backward for causal
inference? Health & Place, 21(0), 46-51.
Kestens, Y., Lebel, A., Chaix, B., Clary, C., Daniel, M., Pampalon, R., . . . SV, P. S. (2012).
Association between activity space exposure to food establishments and individual
risk of overweight. PLoS One, 7(8)
Kestens, Y., Lebel, A., Daniel, M., Theriault, M., & Pampalon, R. (2010). Using
experienced activity spaces to measure foodscape exposure. Health Place, 16(6),
Thierry, B., Chaix, B., & Kestens, Y. (2013). Detecting activity locations from raw GPS
data: a novel kernel-based algorithm. Int J Health Geogr, 12(1), 14. doi: 10.1186/1476-
072X-12-14
Perchoux, C., Chaix, B., Cummins, S., & Kestens, Y. (2013). Conceptualization and
measurement of environmental exposure in epidemiology: Accounting for activity
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