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GIS Tutorial for Health, fifth edition, teahes GIS and analysis skills to health professionals and students. Using health-care scenarios, the book demonstrates how to process and visualize health data to better manage services and support health-care policy, and]includes lessons and exercises on map...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kurland, Kristen Seamens, 1966- (Author), Gorr, Wilpen L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Redlands, California : Esri Press, [2014]
Edition:Fifth Edition.
Subjects:
Medical geography > Data processing.
Geographic information systems.
ArcGIS.
Geographic Information Systems.
Topography, Medical.
Automatic Data Processing.
Programmed Instruction.
Table of Contents:
  • Introducing GIS and health applications
  • Visualizing health data
  • Designing maps for a health study
  • Projecting, downloading, and using spatial data
  • Downloading and preparing spatial and tabular data
  • Geocoding tabular data
  • Processing and analyzing spatial data
  • Transforming data using approximate methods
  • Using ArcGIS spatial analyst for demand estimation
  • Studying food-borne-disease outbreaks
  • Forming local chapters of ACHE.