Nikolaos Yiannakoulias - McMaster Experts

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Faculty of Science, McMaster University
Associate Professor, Earth, Environment & Society, Faculty of Science

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chapters
- A Space-Time Approach to Reducing Child Pedestrian Exposure to Motor-Vehicle Commuter Traffic. Advances in Geographic Information Science. 355-372. 2018
- Hazards of Safety: Transportation Externalities and the Rights of Children. 389-404. 2017
- Hazards of Safety: Transportation Externalities and the Rights of Children. 1-16. 2015
- Synthesizing Waterborne Infection Prevalence for Comparative Analysis of Cluster Detection Methods. 457-472. 2011
- The Incidence and Prevalence of Parkinson Disease in Alberta. 191-211. 2010
conferences
- Games in Socioenvironmental Research. Journal of Planning Literature. 528-528. 2022
- West Nile Virus. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 135-148. 2007
- The prevalence of Parkinson's disease among first nations people in Alberta, Canada. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. S371-S371. 2005
- Secular trends in chickenpox hospitalizations 1993-2002.. American Journal of Epidemiology. S60-S60. 2005
- Medication use and falls in community dwelling older persons.. American Journal of Epidemiology. S24-S24. 2001
journal articles
- Spatial intelligence and contextual relevance in AI-driven health information retrieval. Applied Geography. 171:103392. 2024
- In memoriam M. John Hodgson 1942–2024. Canadian Geographer. 68. 2024
- Parameterizing agent-based models using an online game. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 112:102142-102142. 2024
- An Exploratory Study on the Impacts of Individual Skills and Health Information Exposure on Perceptions of Cancer Control and Expert Competence. Journal of Cancer Education. 38:1584-1591. 2023
- ‘Vaccinfluencers’: a study of influential voices criticizing COVID-19 vaccination efforts and negative vaccine information discourse on Twitter. Communication Review, The. 26:300-322. 2023
- Cap-and-Trade Game: An Online Computer Game for Experiential Learning About Pollution Pricing. Simulation & Gaming. 54:241-251. 2023
- Enquêtes sur les signalements de grappes de cancer au Canada : étude qualitative des pratiques de communication et des procédures d’enquête en santé publique. Promotion de la Santé et Prévention des Maladies Chroniques au Canada. 42:553-566. 2022
- Investigating reports of cancer clusters in Canada: a qualitative study of public health communication practices and investigation procedures. Chronic Diseases and Injuries in Canada. 42:490-502. 2022
- Games in Socioenvironmental Research. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 112:1207-1223. 2022
- Changes in social vulnerability to flooding: a quasi-experimental analysis. Natural Hazards. 111:2487-2509. 2022
- Experimental Evidence for Coverage Preferences in Flood Insurance. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. 13:178-189. 2022
- Negative COVID-19 Vaccine Information on Twitter: Content Analysis. JMIR Infodemiology. 2:e38485-e38485. 2022
- Cancer risk communication in the news coverage of suspected cancer clusters in Ontario: Contrasting media messaging on cancer by geography. Canadian Geographer. 65:333-345. 2021
- Has public health messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic reflected local risks to health?: A content analysis of tweeting practices across Canadian geographies. Health & Place. 69:102568-102568. 2021
- Examining Tweet Content and Engagement of Canadian Public Health Agencies and Decision Makers During COVID-19: Mixed Methods Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23:e24883-e24883. 2021
- A serious gaming approach to understanding household flood risk mitigation decisions. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 13. 2020
- Open government data, uncertainty and coronavirus: An infodemiological case study. Social Science and Medicine. 265:113549-113549. 2020
- The decision game: a serious game approach to understanding environmental risk management decisions. Journal of Risk Research. 23:81-94. 2020
- Bubble-Wrapping Halloween. JAMA Pediatrics. 173:494-494. 2019
- Expressions of pro- and anti-vaccine sentiment on YouTube. Vaccine. 37:2057-2064. 2019
- Agricultural injuries among farm and non‐farm children and adolescents in Alberta, Canada. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 61:762-772. 2018
- Meta-analysis based predictions of flood insurance and flood vulnerability patterns in Calgary, Alberta. Applied Geography. 96:41-50. 2018
- The Geography and Scale of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections. Current Tropical Medicine Reports. 4:245-255. 2017
- Celebrity over science? An analysis of Lyme disease video content on YouTube. Social Science and Medicine. 191:57-60. 2017
- A cohort study of regional migration and the risks of attempted suicide and violent assault injury. Injury Prevention. 22:407-411. 2016
- Air pollution exposure: An activity pattern approach for active transportation. Atmospheric Environment. 140:52-59. 2016
- The effect of temperature on arson incidence in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. International Journal of Biometeorology. 60:651-661. 2016
- Motor-vehicle collisions involving child pedestrians at intersection and mid-block locations. Accident Analysis and Prevention. 78:94-103. 2015
- Genetic susceptibility to beryllium: a case–referent study of men and women of working age with sarcoidosis or other chronic lung disease. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 72:21-27. 2015
- A geography of moral hazard: Sources and sinks of motor-vehicle commuting externalities. Health & Place. 29:161-170. 2014
- Examining the relationship between active travel, weather, and the built environment: a multilevel approach using a GPS-enhanced dataset. Transportation. 41:325-338. 2014
- Representations of disability in the Canadian news media: a decade of change?. Disability and Rehabilitation. 35:1859-1868. 2013
- Estimating the effect of turn penalties and traffic congestion on measuring spatial accessibility to primary health care. Applied Geography. 39:172-182. 2013
- Altering School Attendance Times to Prevent Child Pedestrian Injuries. Traffic Injury Prevention. 14:405-412. 2013
- The effects of local and non-local traffic on child pedestrian safety: A spatial displacement of risk. Social Science and Medicine. 80:96-104. 2013
- A Spatial Scan Approach to Detecting Focused‐Global Clustering in Case‐Control Data. Geographical Analysis. 44:368-385. 2012
- Playground Accessibility and Neighbourhood Social Interaction Among Parents. Social Indicators Research. 108:199-213. 2012
- Mapping commuter cycling risk in urban areas. Accident Analysis and Prevention. 45:164-172. 2012
- Spatial aberration vs. geographical substance: Representing place in public health surveillance. Health & Place. 17:1242-1248. 2011
- Understanding Identifiability in Secondary Health Data. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 102:291-293. 2011
- Child pedestrian injuries and urban change. Injury Prevention. 17:9-14. 2011
- Locating irregularly shaped clusters of infection intensity. Geospatial health. 4:191-191. 2010
- Using administrative data to understand the geography of case ascertainment. Chronic Diseases and Injuries in Canada. 30:19-27. 2009
- Using population attributable risk to understand geographic disease clusters. Health & Place. 15:1142-1148. 2009
- Utilisation des données administratives pour comprendre la distribution géographique de la détermination des cas. Maladies Chroniques et Blessures au Canada. 30:21-30. 2009
- Differences between notifiable and administrative health information in the spatial–temporal surveillance of enteric infections. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 78:417-424. 2009
- Geographic hierarchies of diagnostic practice style in cerebrovascular disease. Social Science and Medicine. 68:1985-1992. 2009
- An integrated framework for the geographic surveillance of chronic disease. International Journal of Health Geographics. 8:69-69. 2009
- Using administrative data to understand the geography of case ascertainment.. Chronic Diseases and Injuries in Canada. 30:20-28. 2009
- Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Changes of Residence in Alberta. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. 34:343-348. 2007
- Adaptations for finding irregularly shaped disease clusters. International Journal of Health Geographics. 6:28-28. 2007
- Modelling Geographic Variations in West Nile Virus. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 97:374-378. 2006
- Pain, medication, and injury in older farmers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 49:374-382. 2006
- The changing epidemiology of chickenpox in Alberta. Vaccine. 23:5398-5403. 2005
- Diagnostic uncertainty and medical geography: what are we mapping?. Canadian Geographer. 49:291-300. 2005
- Direct Health Care Costs After Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. 59:441-447. 2005
- 240: Secular Trends in Chickenpox Hospitalizations 1993 – 2002. American Journal of Epidemiology. 161:S60-S60. 2005
- Depression following Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury. Neuroepidemiology. 25:55-61. 2005
- Doctors, patients and influenza-like illness: clinicians or patients at risk?. Public Health. 118:527-531. 2004
- Direct health care costs following traumatic spinal cord injury. Annals of Epidemiology. 14:611-612. 2004
- Medication use and falls in community-dwelling seniors. Annals of Epidemiology. 14:602-602. 2004
- Population-based study of medically treated self-inflicted injuries. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 6:313-320. 2004
- Utilization of health services following spinal cord injury: a 6-year follow-up study. Spinal Cord. 42:513-525. 2004
- The high risk of stroke immediately after transient ischemic attack. Neurology. 62:2015-2020. 2004
- Incident Cerebrovascular Disease in Rural and Urban Alberta. Cerebrovascular Diseases. 17:72-78. 2004
- Medication use and falls in community-dwelling older persons. Age and Ageing. 33:91-91. 2004
- Zones of prevention: the geography of fall injuries in the elderly. Social Science and Medicine. 57:2065-2073. 2003
- Medication use and falls in community-dwelling older persons. Age and Ageing. 32:503-509. 2003
- The Epidemiology of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. 30:113-121. 2003
- Regional comparisons of inpatient and outpatient patterns of cerebrovascular disease diagnosis in the province of Alberta.. Chronic Diseases and Injuries in Canada. 24:9-16. 2003
- The Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Child Pedestrian Injury in Edmonton. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 93:447-451. 2002
- #102-S identification of traumatic spinal cord injuries in alberta, canada. Annals of Epidemiology. 12:527-528. 2002
- #65 Medication use, co-morbidity and injury in older male farmers. Annals of Epidemiology. 12:513-514. 2002
- Sometimes simple is good enough: An analysis of methods for residential building population estimation. Canadian Geographer.
preprints
- Anti-vaccine content or negative vaccine information? Patterns of Twitter content about Covid-19 vaccines (Preprint) 2022
- Examining Tweet Content and Engagement of Canadian Public Health Agencies and Decision Makers During COVID-19: Mixed Methods Analysis (Preprint) 2020