Geographic information systems and health applications
"This book presents a sampling of the many applications utilizing GIS in the field of health, including needs of less-developed countries in utilizing the concepts and technologies of mapping"--Provided by publisher.
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| Language: | English |
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Hershey, Pa. :
IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA),
c2003.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Race, class and place : directions for the future of public health / Gregory Pappas, Mohammed Akhter
- 2. Understanding health disparities through geographic information systems / Samuel Soret ... [et al.]
- 3. Using a GIS and the American Community Survey to address community health problems / Jane L. McCall, Amy K. Pasini, Richard B. Wait
- 4. The application of spatial analysis to the public health understanding of alcohol and alcohol-related problems / Robert Lipton ... [et al.]
- 5. The new kid on the block : a look at how geographic information systems are changing the face of cancer research / Jane L. McCall
- 6. Community breast cancer mapping in Huntington, Long Island / Scott Carlin
- 7. Application of a GIS-based statistical method to assess spatio-temporal changes in breast cancer clustering in the northeastern United States / Daikwon Han, Peter A. Rogerson
- 8. Geographical analysis of disease in small areas using hierarchical Bayesian models : mapping men's lung cancer mortality in Galicia, Spain / C. L. Vidal-Rodeiro ... [et al.]
- 9. Using hierarchical nearest neighbor analysis and animation to investigate the spatial and temporal patterns of raccoon rabies in West Virginia / Andrew Curtis, Michael Leitner, Cathleen Hanlon
- 10. Spatial cluster analysis for etiological research and identification of socio-environmental risk factors / Michael Emch, Mohammad Ali
- 11. The use of GIS and remote sensing in schistosomiasis control in China / Edmund Y. W. Seto... [et al.]
- 12. Bacterial source tracking of nonpoint source pollution using GIS and DNA fingerprinting technologies / M. E. Folkoff ... [et al.]
- 13. Spatial modeling of risk factors for gender-specific child mortality in a rural area of Bangladesh / Mohammad Ali ... [et al.]
- 14. Using GIS to unveil distance effects on hospitalizations in Victoria / Ge Lin
- 15. Spatial accessibility to primary care and physician shortage area designation : a case study in Illinois with GIS approaches / Wei Luo, Fahui Wang
- 16. Using GIS with publicly available data for hospital market share analysis / Evan R. Wolarsky
- 17. Mapping accessibility to general practitioners / Lars Brabyn, Paul Gower.