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Spatial Temporal Modeling of Health Data

Project 4.4.2

The Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information is an Australian national research centre set up under the federal CRC Program – www.crc.gov.au

This project will further our understanding of disease by applying such spatial temporal models to Australia’s world-class routinely-collected health information.

Objectives

  • Identification of geographical inequalities in invasive cancer incidence and survival, and how these spatial patterns have changed over time.
  • Identification of how different cancers relate to each other spatially, to service utilization, and to features of interest, e.g. the locations of screening and treatment facilities.
  • Modeling of cancer incidence and survival with appropriate covariates to help understand potential causes of the space-time patterns found.
  • Development of predictive models of cancer risk and service utilization
  • Inform the development of cost-effective strategies for current and future provision of cancer services.
  • Improved methods for communicating and visualizing model outputs

The knowledge-based objectives arising from the above include:

  • New methodology and algorithms for analyzing, interpreting and predicting spatial and temporal patterns of disease, service utilisation and their potential socio-ecological drivers or identifiers.
  • New visualizations of spatial and temporal trends, resources, management and policy strategies, and impact of these strategies.
  • New software for implementing the methodology and visualisations

Summary

This project will further our understanding and management of disease through the development and application of new ways of:

  • small area disease mapping;
  • modeling disease and potential risk factors;
  • visualizing the results of these models;
  • linking this new information on the spatial and temporal distribution of disease and associated risk factors with health service utilization.

The spatial disparity of diseases is of interest to all health agencies and a priority for the CRCSI Health Program. Research conducted in this project will meet the initial Commonwealth Milestones of the Health Program and be conducted in close collaboration with Project 4.4.1 which will provide the national pathway for visualizing results and enhancing the translation of spatial and temporal models for end-users.

Project Leader: Prof. Kerrie Mengersen (QUT)
Project Team: Prof. Gavin Turrell (QUT); Dr. Peter Baade (Cancer Council Qld); Dr. Nicholas de Klerk (TICHR); Dr. Tim Thralfall (Dept Health WA); Dr. Laura Miller (Dept Health WA); Narelle Mullan (Dept Health WA); Dr. Arul Earnest (QUT); Dr. Geoff Morgan (Uni Sydney); Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez (BioMedware, Inc. Michigan USA); Prof. Sylvia Richardson (Imperial College UK)

Participants:
Queensland Uni of Technology
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Cancer Council Qld
Dept Health WA
Uni Sydney
BioMedware, Inc. Michigan USA
Imperial College UK

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Time is an integral part of our analysis. All views of the data can be animated, from maps to histograms to scatter plots. Furthermore, these animations can be linked together to explore ideas and discover patterns.

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