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  • Epidemiology
  • Geospatial Health

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  • The exposome concept integrates all environmental exposures throughout life.
  • Spatial and contextual exposome data present unique heterogeneity and spatiotemporal scales, differing from individual-level measurements.
  • Existing data offer opportunities to study environmental health determinants but pose methodological challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review existing resources, methods, and tools for spatial and contextual exposome-health research.
  • To identify and analyze methodological challenges in this developing field.
  • To highlight knowledge gaps and future research needs in spatial and contextual exposome analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Review of data engineering techniques for heterogeneous spatial and contextual data.
  • Examination of spatiotemporal data linkage methods for exposome studies.
  • Analysis of statistical approaches for exposome-health association studies.
  • Exploration of machine and deep learning applications for disease prediction using exposome data.

Main Results:

  • Identified unique methodological challenges in data engineering, spatiotemporal linkage, statistical analysis, and machine learning for spatial exposome data.
  • Highlighted the heterogeneity and distinct correlation structures of spatial and contextual exposome data.
  • Provided a critical analysis of current resources and tools.

Conclusions:

  • Addressing the methodological challenges in spatial and contextual exposome research is crucial for advancing our understanding of environmental health.
  • Further research is needed to develop and refine methods for data integration, analysis, and prediction.
  • This review serves as a foundation for future research in geospatial exposome-health studies.