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Disease Prevalence Estimates for Neighbourhoods: Combining Spatial Interpolation and Spatial Factor Models. Peter Congdon , Queen Mary University of London [email protected] http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/staff/congdonp.html http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/pcongdon/. Data on disease prevalence. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Disease Prevalence Estimates for Neighbourhoods: Combining
Spatial Interpolation and Spatial Factor Models
Peter Congdon, Queen Mary University of [email protected]
http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/staff/congdonp.htmlhttp://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/pcongdon/
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Data on disease prevalence Health data may be collected across one
spatial framework (e.g. health providers), but policy interest may be contrasts in health over another spatial framework (e.g. neighbourhoods).
Seek to use data for one framework to provide spatially interpolated estimates of disease prevalence for the other.
But also incorporate neighbourhood morbidity indicators that may also provide information on prevalence
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Data Framework Focusing on England, prevalence totals for
chronic diseases maintained by 8200 general practices for their populations (subject to measurement error, excess or deficits in “case-finding”). See Prevalence data tables at http://www.ic.nhs.uk/qof
These data not provided for any small area populations, e.g. 32000 neighbourhoods across England (Lower Super Output Areas or LSOAs)
Study focus: GP populations and LSOAs in Outer NE London (970K population) and on estimating neighbourhood psychosis prevalence
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London Borough Map
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Discrete Process Convolution Use principles of discrete process
convolution to estimate neighbourhood prevalence.
Geostatistical techniques (multivariate Gaussian process) computationally demanding for large number of units involved
Base Framework: Prevalence for GP Populations
Target Framework: Prevalence for Neighbourhoods
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Discrete Process Model
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Model for Base Framework, Study Data
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Model for Target Framework
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INCORPORATING OBSERVED INDICATORS of NEIGHBOURHOOD PREVALENCE
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SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATION
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LIKELIHOOD: REFLEXIVE INDICATORS
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PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION
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POTENTIAL SENSITIVITY IN INFERENCES & FIT Sensitivity to kernel density choice Sensitivity to constraint adopted
(kernel scale set or known; process variance set or unknown)
Sensitivity to form of process effects: e.g. wj normal vs Student t
Sensitivity to density of discrete grid
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SPATIAL SENSITIVITY IN INTERPOLATED NEIGHBOURHOOD PREVALENCE
Can compare models in terms of localised hot spot probabilities of high psychosis risk Pr(k>1|y,h)>0.9
Or compare clustering of excess psychosis risk. Define binary indicators Jk=I(k>1)
Over MCMC iterations monitor excess risk in both neighbourhood k and its adjacent neighbourhoods l=1,..,Lk.
Ck is probability indicator of high risk cluster centred on neighbourhood k.
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Study Specifications Locations: population centroids for GP
populations and LSOAs Grid set at 2km spacing, no grid point more
than 2km from any neighbourhood centroid Kernel form as in seed dispersal literature
(e.g. Austerlitz et al, 2004; Clark et al, 1999), e.g. bivariate exponential with scale a and with distance d (from GP population or neighbourhood to discrete grid point) as argument is P(d|a)=)
Compare four models out of wide possible range of options
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Fit Comparisons
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Comparing Neighbourhood Spatial Risk Patterns
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OVERLAP AT NEIGHBOURHOOD LEVEL (K=562)
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Density plot (M4), prevalence rate
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Map of Interpolated Neighbourhood Prevalenceunder M4
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Map of Clustering Probabilities under M4 (posterior means of Ck)
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Future Research Modify interpolation to include
“formative” influences on prevalence (e.g. area deprivation)
How does model work with other chronic diseases, or with jointly dependent disease outcomes (e.g. diabetes, obesity)
Space-time prevalence models, etc
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References Austerlitz C et al (2004) Using genetic
markers to estimate the pollen dispersal curve Molecular Ecology, 13, 937–954
Clark J et al (1999) Seed dispersal near and far: patterns across temperate and tropical forests. Ecology, 80, 1475–1494.