This article uses a geography of opportunity framework to highlight methodological issues specific for quantitative research examining neighborhoods and racial/ethnic health disparities, including study design, measurement, causation, interpretation, and implications for policy.
Sometimes, when he talks about his village, I feel that its geography gives his life a framework.
This suggests that further work on functions linking geography to genetics within our framework may yield additional improvements (see the section Discussion).
Ashby (2005) examines the importance of geography when developing police performance frameworks, and Charbonneau and Riccucci (2008) outline the importance of social equity indicators.
At university level, some treatment of paleoanthropology could usefully be incorporated within the course framework for students of geography and history, for example.
Bernasco et al. (2017) cite rational choice, routine activity, crime pattern theories and the geography of crime as complementary theoretical frameworks in understanding links between place and crime.
The association between phylogeny and geography was statistically assessed in a Bayesian framework implemented in the BaTS program [23], which takes into account the phylogenetic uncertainty in the analysis.
Since the 1950s, broader frameworks have been advocated for geography, with a 'human land tradition' incorporating mutual interactions between man and environment.
Our framework models genetic variation as function of geography by assuming a logistic gradient for the spatial distribution of genetic variations (see the section Materials and Methods).
