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Introduction to geographic information systems in public health
Introduction -- Historical uses of geographic information in public health -- GIS data acquisition and storage -- Definition of GIS -- Data acquisition and storage: incorporating spatial databases -- Scale and projection -- Incorporating attribute databases -- Demographic data -- Socioeconomic data -- Vital statistics data -- Morbidity data -- Health resources and expenditures -- Other health-related data sources useful in community health planning -- Other data with public health implications -- Environmental data -- Meteorological data -- Adding location information to attribute data: global positioning system -- Data verification : metadata (data about data) -- GIS data transformation : making maps -- Geocoding -- Event mapping -- Overlays -- Choropleth maps -- Querying: distance and buffering -- Statistical issues -- Modeling -- Public health GIS applications : environmental health -- Environmental exposure and disease risk -- Nonionizing radiation exposures : identifying exposed cohorts for further studies -- Air emissions -- Lead -- Drinking-water pollution : using GIS to target interventions to protect communities from health risks due to septic contamination, nitrates, and volatile organic compounds -- Environmental equity : communities at disproportionate risk -- Public health GIS applications : communicable-disease prevention and control -- Vaccine-preventable diseases -- Vector-borne and parasitic communicable diseases : using GIS to target communities for interventions -- Sexually transmitted disease : gonorrhea -- Tuberculosis -- Putting it all together : an automated communicable disease surveillance system -- Public health GIS applications : injuries -- Unintentional injuries -- Intentional injuries : homicide -- Public health GIS applications : chronic disease prevention -- Health promotion -- Cancer clusters -- Pediatric cancers -- More common cancers : adult and pediatric brain cancer -- Studies using modeling techniques to develop surrogate measures of exposure -- Heart disease -- Public health GIS applications : community health assessment and planning -- Planning service delivery : primary care and other human services -- Using GIS in performing community health assessments -- Bringing community health assessment to the community -- Using GIS to map community assets for public health and health services planning -- Access to other human services -- Limitations of GIS : lessons learned and challenges -- Data quality and availability -- Trained workforce and costs -- Defining community -- Confidentiality -- Misinterpretation of results -- Getting started with GIS: hardware, operating systems, and software -- Hardware -- Operating systems -- Software -- GIS on the Internet -- The future of GIS and the role of public health officials -- Facilitating public health functions -- Facilitating public health performance -- Evaluating public health agency performance -- Limitations of GIS in evaluating public health performance -- A research agenda for public health GIS -- The future of GIS and the role of public health officials -- Diffusing the technology, serving as resources, and inserting the science.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-296) and index.