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WEBMei-Po Kwan's homepage. Positions. Head, Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

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Health and Place

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Significant Contributions

WEBI have made innovative contributions to research on individual accessibility, environmental health, human mobility, neighborhood effects, critical and qualitative GIS, and …

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Brief biosketch of Mei-Po Kwan in English

WEBBiosketch of Mei-Po Kwan. Mei-Po Kwan is Head of Chung Chi College, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management, Director of the Institute of Space …

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The Uncertain Geographic Context Problem

WEBAbstract: The uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP), first articulated by Kwan (2012), refers to the problem that findings about the effects of area-based contextual …

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Health and Place

WEB-okHTSTmT,p,mTyKU 5RQOLQHKxTmT,,CvCEgTKThTmT,N.r5ULJKWVr The superspreading places of COVID-19 and the associated built-environment and socio …

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Mei-Po Kwan's Presentations

WEB2009. “The role for critical GIS and mixed methods research in studies of healthcare accessibility.”. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American …

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The Uncertain Geographic Context Problem

WEBUsing neighborhood effects and environmental health research as a point of departure, this article clarifies the nature and sources of this problem, which is referred …

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Social Science & Medicine

WEBKeywords: Place Areal unit Exposures Health Behavior. An essential task in any study that examines the contextual determinants of health behaviors and outcomes is to identify …

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How GIS can help address the uncertain geographic context …

WEBDrawing upon Kwan (2012) and recent social science studies (especially environmental health and neighborhood effects research), this article further elaborates on the nature …

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Uncertainties in the geographic context of health behaviors: a …

WEBthe most relevant area aﬀecting health behaviors and outcomes, and neighborhood eﬀects operate only through interactions among those residing within the same neigh-

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Mei-Po Kwan's Students

WEBPost-doctoral Researcher, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Awards: (1) Finalist, Peter Gould Student Paper …

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The Uncertain Geographic Context Problem (UGCoP)

WEBThe uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP) was first articulated in Kwan (2012a,b). It refers to the problem that findings about the effects of area-based …

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The Neighborhood Effect Averaging Problem (NEAP): An …

WEBThis is a fundamental methodological issue when examining the health effects of mobility-dependent exposures and may be called the neighborhood effect averaging problem …

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Beyond Space (As We Knew It): Toward Temporally Integrated …

WEBBeyond Space (As We Knew It): Toward Temporally Integrated Geographies of Segregation, Health, and Accessibility Mei-Po Kwan Department of Geography and …

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How Neighborhood Effect Averaging Might Affect …

WEBthat about 10 million Canadians are exposed to high levels of traffic-related air pollution. Using residence-based fixed administrative units as neighborhood areas might be …

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The Uncertain Geographic Context Problem in the Analysis of …

WEBInt. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2018, 15, 308 3 of 20 the relationship between the built environment and obesity. Individuals’ residences, workplaces, and primary physical …

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Individual exposure estimates may be erroneous when …

WEBhigh levels of ground-level ozone concentration may result from high levels of automobile use and manufacturing activities in the county, because nitrogen oxides …

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Science of the Total Environment

WEBSpatial analysis of the impact of urban geometry and socio-demographic characteristics on COVID-19, a study in Hong Kong Coco Yin Tung Kwoka, Man Sing Wonga,b,⁎, Ka Long …

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