John Robert Medina

1. Most epidemiologists are focused on doing observational and experimental studies. There can only be a few who are interested in doing ecologic studies. This can one possible reason. Another is there are only few researchers who are trained in spatial statistics. Most of the statistical tests that are being used in the analysis part of…[Read more]

I would like to ask for a clarification. Based on my understanding of what was written in the paper, provincial data in 2011 was used. I am not certain if what the author had at hand was individual level data or an aggregated data per province. Because if it is aggregated data per province, the study design is not cross-sectional design but…[Read more]

1. Why was the author interested in investigating the suicide problem in Thailand during the time?

Aside from the continued increase of suicide rates over the past decade, studying the influence of economic and social factors on suicide rates had caught the interest of scholars. In addition, there is paucity of local literatures that investigated…[Read more]

1. What are possible reasons locations in epidemiological research have not been incorporated as much as other components in epidemiological research? How can spatial epidemiology be considered as an interdisciplinary science?

One of the possible reason is the lack of expertise in some LMICs. Most of the epidemiologists in LMICs are not trained…[Read more]