the alsace-lorraine region in france has been at the center of many fateful events, such as two world wars, due to its distinct geographical placement between two important european countries – that is, france and germany. the identity of the alsace-lorraine population has had many links with germany because of geographical, linguistic and historical features that the two share. moreover, throu...

STUDY OBJECTIVE As earlier studies have shown space-time clusters at onset of type 1 diabetes in the south east region of Sweden we investigated if there also has been any geographical clusters of diabetes in this region. DESIGN The place of residence (coordinates) at the time of diagnosis were geocoded in a geographical information system (GIS). All children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes up...

OBJECTIVE To examine geographical variation of mortality in Thailand. MATERIAL AND METHOD Descriptive ecological study using the national vital registration data in 2000, age-specific mortality rate and cause-specific standardized mortality ratio (SMR) were presented at district geographic level. RESULTS Overall mortality was highly concentrated in the middle part of the upper north, as wel...