Geographic information systems and public health eliminating perinatal disparity /

• 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.
• Subjects: Geographic information systems.; Public health > Data processing.; Geographic Information Systems.; Infant Mortality.; Community Health Planning.; Pregnancy, High-Risk.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

"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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.