In the course of preparing this paper, which initially focused solely on identifying the impacts of input-output analysis on geography, a much broader perspective on the impacts of Walter Isard on geography ultimately emerged. In the tradition of input-output analysis, these impacts are grouped into direct, indirect, and induced effects, and summarized under the heading of influence. Walter Isa...

a Joint Remote Sensing Research Program, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia b Remote Sensing Centre, Science Delivery, Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts, 41 Boggo Road, QLD 4102, Australia c Department of Geography and NERC National Centre for Earth Observation University Colleg...

Ecologic niche modeling (ENM) is a growing field with many potential applications to questions regarding the geography and ecology of disease transmission. Specifically, ENM has the potential to inform investigations concerned with the geography, or potential geography, of vectors, hosts, pathogens, or human cases, and it can achieve fine spatial resolution without the loss of information inher...

W. SUN*{, G. XU{, P. GONG§ and S. LIANG" {Department of Geography and Planning, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401, USA. e-mail: [email protected] {Department of Geography and Planning, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401, USA. e-mail: [email protected] §Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley, 151 Hilgard Hall, CA94720...

INTRODUCTION Emergency medical technician (EMT) or paramedic (EMTP) certification requirements for flight nurses (FNs) providing on-scene patient care vary. We surveyed those requirements and evaluated the relationships between flight team composition or program location and FN EMS certification. METHODS Telephone survey of all 184 rotor-wing programs responding with a nurse to scenes RESUL...

The Alberta Cardiac Access Collaborative (ACAC) is a joint initiative of Alberta's health system to improve access to adult cardiac services across the patient journey. ACAC has created new care delivery models and implemented best practices across Alberta in four streams across the continuum: heart attack, patient navigation, heart failure and arrhythmia. Emergency medical providers, nurses, p...

1 Medical Research Council/Wits University Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 2 WHO Collaborating Centre for Verbal Autopsy, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden 3 Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Divisi...