GIS and public health /
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| Språk: | English |
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New York :
Guilford Press,
c2002.
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Innehållsförteckning:
- Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER I GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
- Definitions of GIS 15
- GIS Functions 18
- Trends in GIS Applications 33
- Public Health Applications of GIS 35
- Conclusion 37
- CHAPTER 2 SPATIAL DATA
- Field and Object Data 39
- Raster and Vector Data Structures 41
- Measuring Location 45
- Scale, Projection, and Symbols of Cartographic Data Sources 47
- Geographic Data Quality 56
- Spatial Databases in a Basic GIS Configuration for Public Health 62
- Conclusion 66
- CHAPTER 3 SPATIAL DATABASES
- FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
- Foundation Spatial Data 67
- Health Data 77
- Health Services Data 84
- Making Health Data Mappable 85
- Database Integration 91
- Data Sharing 94
- Conclusion 97
- CHAPTER 4 MAPPING HEALTH INFORMATION
- The Mapping Process 98
- Representing Health Information 100
- Viewing Health Information 113
- GIS and Map Publication 124
- Conclusion 128
- CHAPTER 5 ANALYZING SPATIAL CLUSTERING
- OF HEALTH EVENTS
- Analyzing Clustering Using Area Data 133
- Methods for Analyzing Point Data 142
- Uses of Spatial Clustering Methods 153
- Challenges 155
- Conclusion 157
- CHAPTER 6 ANALYZING ENVIRONMENTAL
- HAZARDS
- How Environmental Agents Are Identified as Hazards 160
- GIS Analysis of Source Locations
- of Environmental Hazards 162
- Modeling Fate and Transport and Environmental Quality
- in a GIS 169
- GIS and Exposure Modeling 174
- GIS and Outcome Surveillance 182
- GIS and Environmental Risk Management 185
- Issues in Environmental Hazard Mapping 186
- Conclusion 187
- CHAPTER 7 ANALYZING THE RISK AND SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
- Spatial Diffusion 190
- Mapping Case Distributions 193
- Mapping Variability in Disease Agents 198
- Analyzing Temporal and Geographic Trends
- in Disease Outbreaks 199
- Privacy and Confidentiality 207
- Conclusion 209
- CHAPTER 8 EXPLORING THE ECOLOGY
- OF VECTOR-BORNE DISEASE
- Case Definition for Vector-Borne Disease 211
- Temporal and Spatial Integration of Surveillance Data 212
- Identifying Areas of High and Low Incidence 214
- Evaluating the Environmental Characteristics of Case Locations 219
- Analyzing the Geographical Distributions of Vector and Host
- Populations 222
- Global Change Affecting Vector Distribution 226
- Environmental Impacts of Controlling Vector-Borne Disease 230
- Conclusion 232
- CHAPTER 9 ANALYZING ACCESS
- TO HEALTH SERVICES
- Access 234
- Mapping Service Locations 237
- Mapping Health Needs and Services 238
- Assessing Potential Access to Health Services 240
- Potential Accessibility Measures 243
- Analyzing Service Utilization 249
- Conclusion 258
- CHAPTER 10 LOCATING HEALTH SERVICES
- Health Care Shortage Areas 260
- Components and Dimensions of Health Service Delivery Systems 261
- Client Population Distribution 264
- The Meaning of "Centrality" in Models of Health Service Facility
- Location 265
- Normative Models of Facility Location and Service Delivery 267
- Incorporating Normative Models of Facility Location and Service
- Delivery into GIS 279
- Spatial Decision Support Systems 285
- Conclusion 286
- CHAPTER 11 GIS AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
- Institutional Contexts and Public Participation GIS 289
- GIS Access and Education for Community Groups 291
- Community-Based Public Health GIS 294
- Constraints on PPGIS 297
- Conclusion 298.