title: Spatio-temporal determinants of mental health and well-being: advances in geographically-explicit ecological momentary assessment (GEMA).
abstract: Overview of geographically explicit momentary assessment research, applied to the study of mental health and well-being, which allows for cross-validation, extension, and enrichment of research on place and health.
  
  
  
  Building on the historical foundations of both ecological momentary assessment and geographic momentary assessment research, this review explores their emerging synergy into a more generalized and powerful research framework.
  
  
  
  Geographically explicit momentary assessment methods are rapidly advancing across a number of complimentary literatures that intersect but have not yet converged. Key contributions from these areas reveal tremendous potential for transdisciplinary and translational science.
  
  
  
  Mobile communication devices are revolutionizing research on mental health and well-being by physically linking momentary experience sampling to objective measures of socio-ecological context in time and place. Methodological standards are not well-established and will be required for transdisciplinary collaboration and scientific inference moving forward.
authors: College of Global Public Health, New York University, 41 E. 11th St., 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10003, USA. tomkirchner@nyu.edu.|Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University, New York, NY, USA. tomkirchner@nyu.edu.|Department of Population Health, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA. tomkirchner@nyu.edu.
authors: Thomas R
authors: 0000-0001-5764-4980
authors: TR
authors: Kirchner
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.|Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.|Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.|Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
authors: Saul
authors: S
authors: Shiffman
mesh_terms: D000072860:Ecological Momentary Assessment; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D008603:Mental Health; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D012306:Risk; D062211:Spatio-Temporal Analysis; D017216:Telemedicine
keywords: Ecological momentary assessment (EMA); Geographic information systems/science (GIS); Geographic momentary assessment (GMA); Geographically explicit ecological momentary assessment (GEMA); Spatio-temporal determinants of health; mHealth