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Soumya Mazumdar

University of Canberra
Verified email at canberra.edu.au
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The built environment and social capital: A systematic review

S Mazumdar, V Learnihan… - Environment and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
A growing literature has indicated a relationship between social capital and certain aspects
of the built environment with contributions from various disciplines, including environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Respiratory pandemics, urban planning and design: A multidisciplinary rapid review of the literature

P Harris, B Harris-Roxas, J Prior, N Morrison… - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
COVID-19 is the most recent respiratory pandemic to necessitate better knowledge about
city planning and design. The complex connections between cities and pandemics, however …

Spatial clusters of autism births and diagnoses point to contextual drivers of increased prevalence

S Mazumdar, A Winter, KY Liu, P Bearman - Social science & medicine, 2013 - Elsevier
Autism prevalence has risen dramatically over the past two decades in California. Although
often suggested to have been crucial to the rise of autism, environmental and social …

[HTML][HTML] Geocoding accuracy and the recovery of relationships between environmental exposures and health

S Mazumdar, G Rushton, BJ Smith… - International Journal of …, 2008 - Springer
Background This research develops methods for determining the effect of geocoding quality
on relationships between environmental exposures and health. The likelihood of detecting …

[HTML][HTML] Walkability and greenness do not walk together: investigating associations between greenness and walkability in a large metropolitan city context

FK Shuvo, S Mazumdar, SM Labib - International journal of environmental …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: The existing environment literature separately emphasizes the importance of
neighborhood walkability and greenness in enhancing health and wellbeing. Thus, a …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling the probability distribution of positional errors incurred by residential address geocoding

DL Zimmerman, X Fang, S Mazumdar… - International Journal of …, 2007 - Springer
Background The assignment of a point-level geocode to subjects' residences is an important
data assimilation component of many geographic public health studies. Often, these …

Prescription opioid analgesics for pain management in Australia: 20 years of dispensing

MM Islam, IS McRae, S Mazumdar… - Internal medicine …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background Opioid prescribing/dispensing data can inform policy surrounding regulation by
informing trends and types of opioid prescribed and geographic variations. In Australia so far …

How can geographical information systems and spatial analysis inform a response to prescription opioid misuse? A discussion in the context of existing literature

S Mazumdar, IS Mcrae… - Current Drug Abuse …, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
The misuse of prescription opioids is a major public health problem in the United States,
Canada, Australia and other parts of the developed world. Methods to quantify dimensions …

The spatial structure of autism in California, 1993–2001

S Mazumdar, M King, KY Liu, N Zerubavel, P Bearman - Health & place, 2010 - Elsevier
This article identifies significant high-risk clusters of autism based on residence at birth in
California for children born from 1993 to 2001. These clusters are geographically stable …

[HTML][HTML] Tree canopy cover is best associated with perceptions of greenspace: a short communication

S Mazumdar, A Dunshea, S Chong… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
A growing literature has supported a relationship between greenspace and health. Various
greenspace metrics exist; some are based on subjective measures while others are based …