Chen himself has co-led several interdisciplinary studies on natural hazards, including an award-winning assessment of natural disaster risk "hotspots" with the World Bank and other partners.
We propose to refine this software to produce a platform-portable, geographically scalable, and adjustable tool that would give Earth Clinic clients the capacity to identify natural hazard risk hotspots in their countries and thus prioritize the mainstreaming of hazard mitigation into development activities.
Africa and the Middle East are shown to be the extreme risk hotspots.
Two promising areas for further research are interventions that prompt lay people to check their own diabetes risk and use of risk scores on population datasets to identify high risk "hotspots" for targeted public health interventions.
In anticipation of future ID outbreaks, a well-designed system could be used strategically by decision makers to allocate or predeploy limited human and material resources to risk hotspots.
As suggested for tuberculosis, efforts should be done to control the proliferation of such intense game management without sanitary control in disease-free areas, since they can become risk hotspots with negative implications for animal health and for conservation [ 44].
With multiple years of data, we could evaluate whether dengue transmission at the beginning of the dengue season or at the beginning of an epidemic is more likely to begin in neighborhoods with similar characteristics, to assess whether there are persistent high-risk, hotspot neighborhoods that trigger outbreaks.
Moreover, the As pollution risks hotspots were reasonably identified using ordinary kriging and indicator kriging interpolations based on DRS predicted As values.
Shelter's analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
The CHRR and the ProVention Consortium held a review workshop for the Assessment of High Risk Disaster Hotspots project.
