NZPR Special Geospatial Edition out now

NZPR Vol 50 is a special edition packed with papers using geospatial methods, from an Extreme Events Index for Aotearoa, to checking geospatial accuracy in health data.

Guest-edited by Jesse Whitehead and Matt Hobbs, the eleven papers fall under four themes: geospatial accuracy and classification, healthy environments and access to services, looking back in time, and future directions.

Two papers, by Phoebe Eggleton et al., and Gabrielle Davie et al., focus on a critical but sometimes overlooked issue: the importance of geospatial accuracy and classification in health research, highlighting the need for a continued focus on precision in geospatial data to avoid potentially misleading conclusions in health research.

This edition also includes four studies examining healthy environments and equitable access to services, especially for underserved populations are highlighted through novel data and approaches. Jesse Wiki et al., appreciates the importance of connection to the land for Māori by examining access and availability of environmental factors for tamariki and rangatahi Māori. Troy Ruhe et al., analyse how young Pacific Peoples live closer to both health-promoting and health-constraining features compared with non-Māori/non-Pacific populations. Agrani Ratnayake Kumar et al. show how ethnicity and deprivation may have an impact on the availability of endoscopic sinus surgery in the Waikato. Miller et. al. look at the development of a web app looking at the rural-urban divide in Covid-19 vaccination. 

We are reminded of the importance of looking back in time by Bingyu (Susie) Deng et al. and by Lars Brabyn and Charisse Camacho Hanson. Both studies use data, including historic data, to offer a valuable historical and contemporary context for understanding how socio-economic deprivation and migration patterns have transformed over time in Aotearoa New Zealand, informing future research and policy.

The remaining papers take a forward-focused view, including Malcolm Campbell‘s discussion of new, detailed spatio-temporal data sources, such as mobile phone location data, and big geospatial data. Tessa Pocock et al. outline the development of a new virtual tool that assesses the street environment from a falls-risk perspective. And we are delighted to include the winner of the 2023 Jacoby Prize, Heather McLeod, for her paper co-authored with her Masters supervisor James Renwick, ‘Linking people and climate: The Extreme Events Climate Index for Aotearoa for Stats NZ geographies and iwi rohe’. 

Full contents and download list for NZPR Vol 50

Editor’s Notes/ Tuhipoka kaitakatā

Investigating misclassification in exposure to the Canterbury earthquake sequence using a birth cohort study / Te whakatewhatewha i te whakarōpūtanga hē o te noho whakaraerae ki te raupapa rū whenua o waitaha mā te whakamahi i te rangahau pūtoi whānautanga
PHOEBE EGGLETON, MALCOLM CAMPBELL, MATTHEW HOBBS, GERALDINE F.H. MCLEOD, JOSEPH BODEN

Accuracy of domicile codes in New Zealand’s hospital discharge data and implications for urban-rural analyses / Te tōtika o ngā waehere tauwāhi kei ngā raraunga tuku i ngā hōhipera o Aotearoa me ngā pānga ki ngā tātaritanga tāone-taiwhenua
GABRIELLE DAVIE, JESSE WHITEHEAD, RORY MILLER, JUNE ATKINSON, SUE CRENGLE, BRANDON DE GRAAF, ROSS LAWRENSON, MICHELLE SMITH, GARRY NIXON

How healthy are the environments of tamariki and rangatahi Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand? A nationwide cross-sectional geospatial study / He pēhea nei te hauora o ngā tamariki me ngā rangatahi Māori kei Aotearoa? He rangahau mokowā ā-nuku topenga ā-motu
JESSE WIKI, REREMOANA THEODORE, LUKÁŠ MAREK, MATT HOBBS, TROY RUHE, JESSE KOKAUA, JOSEPH BODEN, HIRAN THABREW, SARAH HETRICK, BARRY MILNE, NICK BOWDEN

The natural and built environments where Pacific children and young people in Aotearoa New Zealand live: a nationwide cross-sectional geospatial study / Ngā taiao tūturu me ngā taiao hanga e noho ana ngā tamariki me ngā taiohi moananui-a-kiwa i Aotearoa: he rangahau mokowā ā-nuku motuhanga ā-motu
TROY RUHE, LUKÁŠ MAREK, NICK BOWDEN, JESSE WIKI, REREMOANA THEODORE, MATT HOBBS, HIRAN THABREW, ROSALINA RICHARDS, BARRY MILNE, SARAH HETRICK, JOSEPH BODEN, JESSE KOKAUA

Access to endoscopic sinus surgery: effects of ethnicity and deprivation status in the Waikato region, New Zealand / Te āhei atu ki te hāpara pākohu ihu mā te pūtiro rāroto: Ngā pānga o te mātāwaka me te tūnga pakukore kei te rohe Pōtae, Aotearoa
AGRANI RATNAYAKE KUMAR, BERT VAN DER WERF, ANNIE CHIANG, DANIEL J. EXETER, ANDREW JAMES WOOD

Construction of a consistent historic time-series area-level deprivation metric for Aotearoa New Zealand / Te hanga inenga pukukore ā-wāhi houanga aronehe ōrite mō Aotearoa
BINGYU DENG, MALCOLM CAMPBELL, GERALDINE F. H. MCLEOD, JOSEPH BODEN, LUKÁŠ MAREK, CLIVE E. SABEL, PAUL NORMAN, MATTHEW HOBBS

Modelling net migration for Aotearoa New Zealand’s cities and towns using geographical information / te whakatauira i te hekenga more mō ngā tāonenui me ngā tāone mā te whakamahi mōhiohio matawhenua
LARS BRABYN, CHARISSE CAMACHO HANSON

New data, new directions: a commentary on emerging big geospatial data for population research / Ngā raraunga hou, ngā aronga hou: he kōrero mō te raraunga rarahi mokowā ā-nuku e maiea ana mō te rangahau taupori
MALCOLM CAMPBELL

Where do falls happen? Using fall-SAFE to audit the street environment for falls risk among older adults – a virtual audit in Google Street View / Ko te tikanga hinga ai te tangata i hea? te whakamahi i fall-SAFE ki te tātari i te taiao tiriti mō te tūpono ka hinga te hunga mātāpuputu – he tātari mariko mā te tirohanga ā-Tiriti Google
TESSA POCOCK, ANGELA CURL, ALISON WATKINS, VERITY TODD, BRIDGET DICKER, SALLY KEELING

Linking people and climate: the Extreme Events Climate Index for Aotearoa for Stats NZ geographies and iwi rohe / Te hono tangata me te āhuarangi: Te Tauine Āhuarangi Hūkerikeri Ake mō Aotearoa mō ngā rohe tauanga a Tatauranga Aotearoa me ngā rohe ā-iwi
HEATHER MCLEOD, JAMES RENWICK