Book review: Hauschke D, Steinijans V and Pigeot I 2007: Bioequivalence studies in drug development methods and application. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 311 p. ISBN 978-0-470-09475-4

Spatio-temporal clustering analysis of COVID-19 cases in Johor

“…The history of disease mapping can be traced back from 4th to 5th centuries before the Common Era, when a Greek physician named Hippocrates first proposed the interrelation between human health and the environment, more specifically the geographical location. In one of his past clinical studies, he observed that residents of north-facing cities tended to be marred by a propensity for tonsillitis and pleurisy, whereas residents of cities with southerly exposures, where fog and mist dispersed more readily, appeared to have better health ( Bloss, 2008 ; Davies, 1971 ; Lawson & Williams, 2001 ).…”

“…The cluster of the dots on the map help to identify the root cause of the cholera epidemic as the contaminated water pump (John Snow, 1936 ; Barford & Dorling, 2016 ). As computers became more user-friendly in the late 1960s, followed by cutting-edge data processing as well as geographic capabilities, disease mapping became a popular analysis technique in analysing various diseases such as yellow fever, hepatitis B, dengue, and obesity ( Shannon, 1981 ; Lawson & Williams, 2001 ; Zhong et al., 2005 ; Samat & Percy, 2012 ; Farhadian et al., 2013 ; Abd Naeeim et al., 2019 ; Abd Naeeim & Abdul Rahman, 2023 ).…”