Introduction to geographic information systems in public health /
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Gaithersburg, Md. :
Aspen Publishers,
2002.
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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 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.