Curtis Andrew, Ye Xinyue, Hachey Kevin, Bourdeaux Margaret, Norris Alison
GIS, Health and Hazards Lab, Department of Geography, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 44242, USA.
College of Medicine, Ohio State University, Meiling Hall, 370 W 9th Ave, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
Int J Health Geogr. 2015 Oct 16;14:29. doi: 10.1186/s12942-015-0022-8.
Although it is widely acknowledged that areas of conflict are associated with a high health burden, from a geospatial perspective it is difficult to establish these patterns at fine scales because of a lack of data. The release of the "WikiLeaks" Afghan War Diary (AWD) provides an interesting opportunity to advance analysis and theory into this interrelationship.
This paper will apply two different space time analyses to identify patterns of improvised explosive devices (IED) detonations for the period of 2004 to 2009 in Afghanistan.
There is considerable spatial and temporal heterogeneity in IED explosions, with concentrations often following transportation links. The results are framed in terms of a resource for subsequent analyses to other existing health research in Afghanistan. To facilitate this, in our discussion we present a Google Earth file of overlapping rates that can be distributed to any researcher interested in combining his/her fine scale health data with a similarly granular layer of violence.
The release of the AWD presents a previously unavailable opportunity to consider how spatially detailed data about violence can be incorporated into understanding, and predicting, health related spillover effects. The AWD can enrich previous research conducted on Afghanistan, and provide a justification for future "official" data sharing at appropriately fine scales.
尽管人们普遍认识到冲突地区与高健康负担相关，但从地理空间角度来看，由于缺乏数据，很难在精细尺度上确定这些模式。“维基解密”阿富汗战争日志（AWD）的发布为推进对这种相互关系的分析和理论研究提供了一个有趣的机会。
本文将应用两种不同的时空分析方法，以确定2004年至2009年期间阿富汗简易爆炸装置（IED）爆炸的模式。
简易爆炸装置爆炸存在相当大的时空异质性，爆炸集中区域往往沿着交通线路分布。这些结果将作为一种资源，用于后续与阿富汗其他现有健康研究的分析。为便于此研究，在讨论中我们提供了一个谷歌地球文件，其中包含重叠率数据，可分发给任何有兴趣将其精细尺度的健康数据与类似粒度的暴力层相结合的研究人员。
阿富汗战争日志的发布提供了一个前所未有的机会，来思考如何将关于暴力的空间详细数据纳入对健康相关溢出效应的理解和预测中。阿富汗战争日志可以丰富此前对阿富汗进行的研究，并为未来在适当精细尺度上的“官方”数据共享提供依据。
