F Benjamin Zhan

Summary

Affiliation: Southwest Texas State University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Are deaths from liver cancer, kidney cancer, and leukemia clustered in San Antonio?
    F Benjamin Zhan
    Department of Geography, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
    Tex Med 98:51-6. 2002
  2. ncbi GIS-EpiLink: a spatial search tool for linking environmental and health data
    F Benjamin Zhan
    Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, Department of Geography, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666, USA
    J Med Syst 30:405-12. 2006
  3. ncbi Detection of arbitrarily-shaped clusters using a neighbor-expanding approach: a case study on murine typhus in South Texas
    Zhijun Yao
    Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, Department of Geography, Texas State University San Marcos, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
    Int J Health Geogr 10:23. 2011
  4. ncbi Access to healthcare and disparities in colorectal cancer survival in Texas
    Neng Wan
    Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, Department of Geography, Texas State University, San Marcos, 601 University Drive, TX 78666, USA
    Health Place 18:321-9. 2012
  5. ncbi Match rate and positional accuracy of two geocoding methods for epidemiologic research
    F Benjamin Zhan
    Department of Geography, Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
    Ann Epidemiol 16:842-9. 2006
  6. ncbi Geographic patterns of cancer mortality clusters in Texas, 1990 to 1997
    F Benjamin Zhan
    Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, Department of Geography, Southwest Texas State University, USA
    Tex Med 99:58-64. 2003
  7. ncbi Socioeconomic disparities in prostate cancer mortality and the impact of geographic scale
    Neng Wan
    Texas State University San Marcos, Department of Geography, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
    South Med J 104:553-9. 2011
  8. ncbi Chagas disease in Texas: recognizing the significance and implications of evidence in the literature
    Elaine Jennifer Hanford
    Department of Geography, Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, Texas State University, Texas, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
    Soc Sci Med 65:60-79. 2007
  9. ncbi Maternal residential proximity to waste sites and industrial facilities and oral clefts in offspring
    Jean D Brender
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Dr Brender, Texas A and M School of Rural Public Health, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 48:565-72. 2006
  10. ncbi Linking environmental hazards and birth defects data
    Jean D Brender
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Texas A and M School of Rural Public Health, College Station, Texas 77843 1266, USA
    Int J Occup Environ Health 12:126-33. 2006

Detail Information

Publications12

  1. ncbi Are deaths from liver cancer, kidney cancer, and leukemia clustered in San Antonio?
    F Benjamin Zhan
    Department of Geography, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
    Tex Med 98:51-6. 2002
    ..No clusters of lung cancer, kidney cancer, or leukemia exist in San Antonio...
  2. ncbi GIS-EpiLink: a spatial search tool for linking environmental and health data
    F Benjamin Zhan
    Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, Department of Geography, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666, USA
    J Med Syst 30:405-12. 2006
    ..The tool was used in a research project and it successfully provided the necessary data for epidemiological analyses. This tool should be very useful to epidemiologists in environmental health research...
  3. ncbi Detection of arbitrarily-shaped clusters using a neighbor-expanding approach: a case study on murine typhus in South Texas
    Zhijun Yao
    Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, Department of Geography, Texas State University San Marcos, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
    Int J Health Geogr 10:23. 2011
    ..Furthermore, we utilize the methods to examine clusters of murine typhus cases in South Texas from 1996 to 2006...
  4. ncbi Access to healthcare and disparities in colorectal cancer survival in Texas
    Neng Wan
    Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, Department of Geography, Texas State University, San Marcos, 601 University Drive, TX 78666, USA
    Health Place 18:321-9. 2012
    ..Spatial access to oncologists has a significant association with CRC survival in non-urban areas but not in urban areas. Geographic disparities of CRC survival were largely influenced by factors rather than spatial access to healthcare...
  5. ncbi Match rate and positional accuracy of two geocoding methods for epidemiologic research
    F Benjamin Zhan
    Department of Geography, Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
    Ann Epidemiol 16:842-9. 2006
    ..This study compares the match rate and positional accuracy of two geocoding methods: the popular geocoding tool in ArcGIS 9.1 and the Centrus GeoCoder for ArcGIS...
  6. ncbi Geographic patterns of cancer mortality clusters in Texas, 1990 to 1997
    F Benjamin Zhan
    Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, Department of Geography, Southwest Texas State University, USA
    Tex Med 99:58-64. 2003
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  7. ncbi Socioeconomic disparities in prostate cancer mortality and the impact of geographic scale
    Neng Wan
    Texas State University San Marcos, Department of Geography, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
    South Med J 104:553-9. 2011
    ..To examine socioeconomic disparities in prostate cancer mortality and to assess the scale effect on the results of the disparity analysis...
  8. ncbi Chagas disease in Texas: recognizing the significance and implications of evidence in the literature
    Elaine Jennifer Hanford
    Department of Geography, Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, Texas State University, Texas, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
    Soc Sci Med 65:60-79. 2007
    ..Tracking of Chagas disease and planning for appropriate health care services would also be aided by including Chagas disease on the list of reportable diseases for humans...
  9. ncbi Maternal residential proximity to waste sites and industrial facilities and oral clefts in offspring
    Jean D Brender
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Dr Brender, Texas A and M School of Rural Public Health, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 48:565-72. 2006
    ..This study examined the association between oral clefts and maternal residential proximity to waste sites or industries...
  10. ncbi Linking environmental hazards and birth defects data
    Jean D Brender
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Texas A and M School of Rural Public Health, College Station, Texas 77843 1266, USA
    Int J Occup Environ Health 12:126-33. 2006
    ..In linking environmental and health outcome databases, researchers should be aware of factors that may confound associations between exposure and outcomes...
  11. ncbi Residential proximity to waste sites and industrial facilities and chromosomal anomalies in offspring
    Jean D Brender
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Texas A and M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health, College Station, TX 77843 1266, USA
    Int J Hyg Environ Health 211:50-8. 2008
    ..8, 95% CI 1.2-42.8). Study findings suggest some relation between residential proximity to industries with emissions of solvents or heavy metals and chromosomal anomalies in births to older mothers...
  12. ncbi Maternal exposures to hazardous waste sites and industrial facilities and risk of neural tube defects in offspring
    Lucina Suarez
    Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Unit, Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin, TX 78756, USA
    Ann Epidemiol 17:772-7. 2007
    ..We examined the relationship between maternal proximity to hazardous waste sites and industrial facilities and neural tube defect (NTD) risk...