Recent Publications

Rosenkrantz, L., Schuurman, N., and Lear, S. A. 2024. Environmental preferences and concerns of recreational trail runners. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21010097.

Harden, S. R., Schuurman, N., Larson, H., and Walker, B. B. 2024. The utility of street view imagery in environmental audits for runnability. Applied Geography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103167.

Van Veghel, D., Dardas, A., Scott, E. M., Swanlund, D., Schuurman, N., and Williams, D. 2023. Spatio-temporal constraints of carer-workers in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area: An exploratory analysis using potential path areas. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2022.100749.

Amram, O., Rosenkrantz, L., DDes, S. A., Schuurman, N., Panwala, V. J., and Joudrey, P. J. 2023. Availability of timely methadone treatment in the United States and Canada during COVID-19: A census tract-level analysis. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.109801.

Martin, M. E., Swanlund, D., and Schuurman, N. 2023. Problems with quantitative categorization: An argument for qualitative approaches. Environment and Planning F. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349825231163140.

Harden, S. R., Schuurman, N., Keller, P.  and Lear, S. A. 2022. Neighborhood characteristics associated with running in Metro Vancouver: A preliminary analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114328.

Walker, B. B., Brinkmann, S. T., Große, T., Kremer, D., Schuurman, N., Hystad, P., Rangarajan, S., Teo, K., Yusuf, S., and Lear, S. A. 2022. Neighborhood greenspace and socioeconomic risk are associated with diabetes risk at the sub-neighborhood scale: Results from the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study. Journal of Urban Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-022-00630-w.

Rosenkrantz, L., Schuurman, N., Hameed, S. M., Boniface, R., and Lett, R. 2022. The Kampala Trauma Score: A 20 year track record. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0000000000003567.

McKitrick, M., Schuurman, N., and Crooks, V. A. 2022. Collecting, analyzing, and visualizing location-based social media data: Review of methods in GIS-social media analysis. GeoJournal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-022-10584-w.

Shashank, A., Schuurman, N., Copley, R., and Lear, S. 2022. Creation of a runnability index using an affordance based framework. Environment and Planning B 49(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083211003886.

Rosenkrantz, L., Schuurman, N., Arenas, C., Jimenez, M. F., and Hameed, S. M. 2021. Understanding the barriers and facilitators to trauma registry development in resource-constrained settings: A survey of trauma registry stewards and researchers. Injury 52(8): 2215-2224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.injury.2021.03.034.

Laane, C. L. E., Rosencrantz, L. E., Schuurman, N., Hameed, S. M., and Joos, E. 2021. Socioeconomic status does not influence the presentation of patients with inguinal hernia at an urban Canadian teaching hospital. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3529616 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3529616.

McKitrick, M., Schuurman, N., Crooks, V. A., and Snyder, J. 2021. Spatial and temporal patterns in Canadian COVID-19 crowdfunding campaigns. PloS ONE 16(8): e0256204. https://doi.org/10.3390/journal.pone.0256204.

Schuurman, N., Rosenkrantz, L., and Lear, S. A. 2021. Environmental preferences and concerns of recreational road runners. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(12): 6268. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126268.

Rosenkrantz, L., Schuurman, N., Bell, N., and Amram, O. 2021. The need for GIScience in mapping COVID-19. Health & Place 67: 102389.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102389.

Walker, B. B., Schuurman, N., Swanlund, D., and Clague, J. J. 2020. GIS-based multicriteria evaluation for earthquake response: A case study of expert opinion in Vancouver, Canada. Natural Hazards. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04390-1.

Walker, B. B., Schuurman, N., Wen, C., Shakeel, S., Schneider, L., and Finley, C. 2020. Cancer resection rates, socioeconomic deprivation, and geographical access to surgery among urban, suburban, and rural populations across Canada. PLOS ONE 15(10): e0240444. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240444.

Swanlund, D., Schuurman, N., Zandbergen, P., and Brussoni, M. 2020. Street-masking: A network-based geographic mask for easily protecting geoprivacy. International Journal of Health Geographics 19: Article 26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-020-00219-z.

Brussoni, M., Lin, Y., Han, C., Janssen, I., Schuurman, N., Boyes, R., Swanlund, D., and Mâsse, L. C. 2020. A qualitative investigation of unsupervised outdoor activities for 10- to 13-year-old children: “I like adventuring but I don’t like adventuring without being careful”. Journal of Environmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101460.

Rosenkrantz, L., Schuurman, N., Arenas, C., Nicol, A., and Hameed, M. 2020. Maximizing the potential of trauma registries in low- and middle-income countries. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open. https://doi.org/10.1136/tsaco-2020-000469.

Schuurman, N., Walker, B. B., Swanlund, D.,  Amram, O., and Yanchar, N. Qualitative field observation of pedestrian injury hotspots: A mixed-methods approach for developing built- and socioeconomic-environmental risk signatures. 2020. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17(6): 2066. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17062066.

Schuurman, N., Martin, M. E., Crooks, V. A.,  and Randall, E. 2020. Where to enhance rural palliative care? Developing a spatial model to identify suitable communities most in need of service enhancement. BMC Health Services Research 20: 168. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-5024-y.

Wister, A. V., Rosenkrantz, L., Shashank, A., Walker, B. B., and Schuurman, N. 2020. Multimorbidity and socioeconomic deprivation among older adults: A cross-sectional analysis in five Canadian cities using the CLSA. Journal of Aging and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1080/26892618.2020.1734138.

Michener, S., Bell, L. S., Swanlund, D., and Schuurman, N. 2020. A method to interpolate osteon volume designed for histological age estimation research. Journal of Forensic Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.14305.

Candy, S., Schuurman, N., MacPherson, A., Schoon, R., and Yanchar, N. 2020. “Who is the right patient?” Insights into pediatric trauma triage influencers. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2020.01.048.

Martin, M., and Schuurman, N. 2020. Social media big data acquisition and analysis for qualitative GIScience: Challenges and opportunities. Annals of American Association of Geographers. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1696664.

Swanlund, D., Schuurman, N., and Brussoni, M. 2019. MaskMy.XYZ: An easy-to-use tool for protecting geoprivacy using geographic masks. Transactions in Geographic Information Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12606.

Walker B. B., Shashank, A., Gasevic, D., Schuurman, N., Poirier, P., Teo, K., Rangarajan, S., Yusuf, S. and Lear, A. S. 2019. The local food environment and obesity: Evidence from three cities. Obesity. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.22614.

Rosenkrantz, L., Schuurman, N., and Hameed, M. 2019. Trauma registry implementation and operation in low and middle income countries: A scoping review. Global Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2019.1622761.

Rosenkrantz, L., Amram, O., Caudell, M. A., Schuurman, N., and Call, D. R. 2019. Spatial relationships between small-holder farms coupled with livestock management practices are correlated with the distribution of antibiotic resistant bacteria in northern Tanzania. One Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2019.100097.

van Duynhoven, A., Lee, A., Michel, R., Snyder, J., Crooks, V. A., Chow-White, P., and Schuurman, N. 2019. Spatially exploring the intersection of socio-economic status and Canadian cancer-related medical crowdfunding campaigns. BMJ Open. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026365.

Makanga, P. T., Sacoor, C., Schuurman, N., Lee, T., Vilanculo, F. C., Munguambe, K., Boene, H., Ukah, U. V., Vidler, M., Magee, L. A., Sevene, E., von Dadelszen, P., and Firoz, T. 2019. Place-specific factors associated with adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes in Southern Mozambique: A retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open 9.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024042.

Yafe, E., Walker, B. B., Amram, O., Schuurman, N., Randall, E., Friger, M., and Adini, B. 2018. Volunteer first responders for optimizing management of mass casualty incidents. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2018.56.

Shashank, A. and Schuurman, N. 2018. Unpacking walkability indices and their inherent assumptions. Health & Place. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.12.005.

Barbosa, K., Walker, B. B., Schuurman, N., D'avila Lins Bezerra Cavalcanti, S., Ferreira, E., and Ferreira, R. 2018. Epidemiological and spatial characteristics of interpersonal physical violence in a Brazilian city: A comparative study of violent injury hotspots in familial versus non-familial settings, 2012-2014. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208304.

Swanlund, D., and Schuurman, N. 2018. Second generation biometrics and the future of geosurveillance: A minority report on FAST. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 17(4): 920–938. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v17i4.1622.

Han, C. S., Mâsse, L. C., Wilson, A., Janssen, I., Schuurman, N., and Brussoni, M. 2018. State of play: Methodologies for investigating children’s outdoor play and independent mobility. Children, Youth and Environments 28(2): 194–231. https://doi.org/10.7721/chilyoutenvi.28.2.0194.

Tansley, G., Schuurman, N., Bowes, M., Erdogan, M., Green, R., Asbridge, M., and Yanchar, N. 2018. Effect of predicted travel time to trauma care on mortality in major trauma patients in Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Surgery 62(2): 123–130. https://doi.org/10.1503/cjs.004218.

Wister, A. V., Lear, A. S., Schuurman, N., MacKey, D., Mitchell, B., and Fyffe, I. 2018. Development and validation of a multi-domain multimorbidity resilience index for an older population: Results from the Baseline Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. BMC Geriatrics 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0851-y.

Swanlund, D. and Schuurman, N. 2018. Resisting geosurveillance: A survey of tactics and strategies for spatial privacy. Progress in Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518772661.

Crooks, V. A., Giesbrecht, M. Castleden, H., Schuurman, N., Skinner, M., and Williams, A. 2018. Community readiness and momentum: identifying and including community-driven variables in a mixed-method rural palliative care service siting model. BMC Palliative Care 17: 59. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-018-0313-5.

Amram, O., Schuurman, N., Randall, E., Zhu, F., Saeedi, J., Rieckmann, P., Yee, I., and Tremlett, H. 2018. The use of satellite data to measure ultraviolet-B penetrance and its potential association with age of multiple sclerosis onset multiple sclerosis and related disorders. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders 21: 30–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2018.02.005.