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Smart density: a more accurate method of measuring rural residential density for health-related research

BACKGROUND: Studies involving the built environment have typically relied on US Census data to measure residential density. However, census geographic units are often unsuited to health-related research, especially in rural areas where development is clustered and discontinuous. OBJECTIVE: We evalua...

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Autores principales: Owens, Peter M, Titus-Ernstoff, Linda, Gibson, Lucinda, Beach, Michael L, Beauregard, Sandy, Dalton, Madeline A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20152044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-9-8