Geographic information systems and public health eliminating perinatal disparity /

"This book is designed to introduce a community health group to the potential of using a Geographic Information System to improve birth outcomes. It provides an overview of why geography is important in the investigation of health, the importance of the main components of a GIS, how important...

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Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Curtis, Andrew, 1967-, Leitner, Michael, 1965-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2006.
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260 # # |a Hershey, Pa. :  |b IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA),  |c c2006. 
300 # # |a electronic texts (xxi, 317 p. : ill., maps) :  |b digital files. 
504 # # |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 # |a 1. Explaining the geography of infant health -- 2. An introduction to GIS (all things data) -- 3. An introduction to GIS (all things spatial) -- 4. The geography of health risks -- 5. GIS and spatial analysis : keeping it simple -- 6. Advanced spatial analysis -- 7. Spatial/temporal stability in neighborhoods of risk : the mobility of mothers -- 8. Patient confidentiality -- 9. Creating the Baton Rouge healthy start GIS -- 10. Bioterrorism, pregnancy, and old white men --11. Rural health issues and their investigation in a GIS environment. 
506 # # |a Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. 
520 3 # |a "This book is designed to introduce a community health group to the potential of using a Geographic Information System to improve birth outcomes. It provides an overview of why geography is important in the investigation of health, the importance of the main components of a GIS, how important neighborhood context is when using a GIS, and the general differences found between urban and rural health environments"--Provided by publisher. 
530 # # |a Also available in print. 
538 # # |a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
588 # # |a Title from PDF t.p. (viewed June 21, 2010). 
650 # 0 |a Geographic information systems. 
650 # 0 |a Public health  |x Data processing. 
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650 1 2 |a Infant Mortality. 
650 2 2 |a Community Health Planning. 
650 2 2 |a Pregnancy, High-Risk. 
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700 1 # |a Leitner, Michael,  |d 1965- 
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