Part One - Overview and Spatial Methods
Chapter 1: Connecting Population, Health and Place (With Geospatial Tools and Data)
Chapter 2: Analyzing cancer and breast cancer in space and time
Chapter 3: Creating Maps and Mapping Systems for Cancer Control and Prevention
Chapter 4: Physical Activity and Exposure in Breast Cancer Survivors Using GPS, GIS, and Accelerometry
Chapter 5: Towards Systematic Methods in an Era of Big Data: Neighborhood Wide Association Studies
Chapter 6: Geospatial Approaches to Environmental Determinants of Breast Cancer in the California Teachers Study
Chapter 7: Systematic Review of Geospatial Approaches to Breast Cancer Epidemiology
Part Two - Environment and Context
Chapter 8: Studying the Influence of the Neighborhood Obesogenic Environment on Breast Cancer in Epidemiological Cohorts: the Multiethnic Cohort
Chapter 9: Spatial analyses of Environmental Exposures and Breast Cancer: Natural Vegetation, Ambient Air Pollution and Outdoor Light at Night as Examples
Chapter 10: Neighborhoods and Breast Cancer Survival: The Case for an Archetype Approach
Chapter 11: Environmental Modification of Adult Weight Loss, Physical Activity, and Diet Intervention Effects
Part Three - Screening, Diagnosis and Beyond
Chapter 12: Geographic Influences on Screening Mammography
Chapter 13: Spatial and Contextual Analyses of Stage at Diagnosis
Chapter 14: Geographic Variation in Medical Neighborhoods for Breast Cancer Care: Diagnosis and Beyond
Part Four - Cross-cutting Topics
Chapter 15: Persistent racial disparities in breast cancer mortality between Black and White women: what SR
Chapter 16: Rural-Urban Disparities in Breast Cancer: Six Suppositions and Future Directions
Chapter 17: Microenvironmental Influences on Team Performance in Cancer Care
Chapter 18: Opportunities and Challenges in Geospatial Approaches to Breast Cancer Prevention and Control
Index
About the Author: David Berrigan, PhD MPH, has been a biologist and Program Director in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences since 2003 and is currently a member of the Health Behaviors Research Branch. Dr. Berrigan received his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Utah in 1993 and M.P.H. from UC Berkeley in 2000 and undertook Postdoctoral training at the University of Washington, La Trobe University and the National Cancer Institute. His research has examined energy balance, carcinogenesis, physical activity, and acculturation using a mix of animal models, population data, and methodological research aimed at improving survey data and incorporating geospatial thinking into cancer prevention and control. He is strongly committed to research aimed at health and health equity for all via environments and institutions that foster well-being, preventive services, and care regardless of demographic or economic circumstances.
Nathan A. Berger, MD, Distinguished University Professor and Hanna-Payne Professor of Experimental Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Oncology, is Director of the Case Western Reserve University Center for Science, Health and Society. He obtained the MD degree from Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA, interned at Michael Reese Medical Center, Chicago, IL, and served as a medical resident and Hematology/Oncology Fellow at Washington University, St. Louis, MO. Dr. Berger was a research associate in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Gerontology Research Center, NICHD, NIH, Baltimore, MD. He was on the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine, before moving to Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine where he served consecutively as Chief, Hematology/Oncology Division, Cancer Center Director, Dean, CWRU School of Medicine and now Director, Center for Science, Health and Society. His research focuses on model systems to study impact of diet, obesity and exercise on aging and cancer and studies to translate and evaluate these observations in human subjects.
