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  title info:
    title: Introduction to geographic information systems in public health
  name:
    name part: Melnick, Alan L.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 300 pages : maps ; 28 cm.
  table of contents: 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 measur…
  note: Alan L. Melnick.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-296) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Topography, Medical
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Information Systems
  subject:
    topic: Public Health
  classification: RA566 .M435 2002
  classification: 614.4/0285
  identifier: 083421878X
  identifier: 2001056635
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 011206
    record change date: 20191203130751.0
    record identifier: in00004494843