Wilson, Ben, and Neal J. Wilson. 2017. “An Iterative Approach to the Parcel Level Address Geocoding of a Large Health Dataset to a Shifting Household Geography.”
Abstract
This article details an iterative process for the address geocoding of a large collection of health encounters (n = 242,804) gathered over a 13 year period to a parcel geography which varies by year. This procedure supports an investigation of the relationship between basic housing conditions and the corresponding health of occupants. Successful investigation of this relationship necessitated matching individuals, their health outcomes and their home environments. This match process may be useful to researchers in a variety of fields with particular emphasis on predictive modeling and up-stream medicine.