Epidemiology and geography : principles, methods and tools of spatial analysis /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Souris, Marc (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Hoboken, NJ : ISTE ; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019.
Series:Information systems, web and pervasive computing series.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Software and Databases. Software. QGIS
  • ArcGIS
  • SavGIS
  • R
  • GeoDA
  • SaTScanTM
  • GWR4
  • Gama
  • Data for the examples
  • 1. Methodological Context. A systemic approach to health; Risk and public health; Epidemiology; Health geography; Spatial analysis for epidemiology and health geography; Geographic information systems; Book structure; 2. Spatial Analysis of Health Phenomena: General Principles. Spatial analysis in epidemiology and health geography
  • Spatial distribution of a health phenomenon
  • Spatial analysis in epidemiology
  • Spatial and statistical dependence
  • Causal relationships, explanatory factors, confounding factors
  • Uncertainty in event localization
  • Health data are often aggregated into geographical units
  • Spatial analysis terminology and formalism
  • General approach of spatial analysis in epidemiology
  • Required knowledge on epidemiology and statistics
  • 3. Spatial Data in Health. Introduction
  • Health data
  • Spatialization of epidemiological data
  • Sources of data
  • 4. Cartographic Representations and Synthesis Tools. Introduction
  • Why use mapping methods?
  • How to use mapping?
  • Cartographic representations
  • Descriptive statistics and visual synthesis tools
  • Interpolations and trend surfaces
  • Spatio-temporal animations
  • 5. Spatial distribution analysis. Direct methods for spatial analysis ; Continuous space point pattern, subset ; Global spatial analyses ; Example: emergence and diffusion of avian influenza
  • 6. Spatial analysis of risk. Aggregation-based spatial analyses ; Statistical modeling of spatial data ; An example: analysis of tuberculosis risk factors
  • 7. Space-time analyses and modeling. Time-distance relationships ; Mobile mean points ; Spatio-temporal autocorrelation and clusters ; Emergence diffusion, pathway ; Spatio-temporal modeling of health phenomena.