Research Catalog

Title

GIS in public health practice / edited by Ravi Maheswaran, Massimo Craglia.

Publication

Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Maheswaran, Ravi.
• Craglia, Massimo.

Description

xi, 308 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

A compilation of contributions from leading experts in the field, the primary focus of this book is on real practice in the use of GIS in public health. GIS in Public Health Practice covers disease mapping and spatial analysis, then moves on to GIS applications in communicable disease control and environmental health protection, and applications in health care planning and policy. It also explores other issues surrounding the use of GIS in public health, particularly data availability, data protection and e-governance.

Subject

• Public health > Research > Methodology
• Geographic information systems
• Public health > Geographic information systems
• Public health > Information services
• Medical geography > Methodology
• Topography, Medical > methods
• Geographic Information Systems > statistics & numerical data
• Public Health Informatics > methods
• Geographic Information Systems
• geographic information systems
• MEDICAL > Epidemiology
• MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment
• Geografische informatiesystemen
• Gezondheidszorg

Genre/Form

• geographic information systems.
• Geographic information systems.
• Systèmes d'information géographique.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Disease Mapping and Spatial Analysis -- Basic Issues in Geographical Analysis / Ravi Maheswaran, Robert P. Haining -- Disease Mapping: Basic Approaches and New Developments / Andrew B. Lawson -- Clustering of Disease / Clive E. Sabel, Markku Loytonen -- GIS Applications in Communicable Disease Control and Environmental Health Protection -- GIS and Communicable Disease Control / Thomas Kistemann, Angela Queste -- New Zealand Experience of Salmonella Brandenburg Infection in Humans and Animals / John Holmes -- Using GIS for Environmental Exposure Assessment: Experiences from the Small Area Health Statistics Unit / Kees de Hoogh, David Briggs, Samantha Cockings, Alex Bottle -- Using Modeled Outdoor Air Pollution Data for Health Surveillance / Paul Brindley, Ravi Maheswaran, Tim Pearson, Stephen Wise, Robert P. Haining -- Health and Environment Information Systems / Paul Aylin, Samantha Cockings -- GIS Applications in Healthcare Planning and Policy -- Health GIS in the English National Health Service: A Regional Solution / Ralph Smith -- GIS in District Public Health Work / Edmund Jessop -- Using GIS to Assess Accessibility to Primary Healthcare Services / Andrew Lovett, Gilla Sunnenberg, Robin Haynes -- GIS in Public Healthcare Planning: The United States Perspective / Gregory A. Elmes -- Data Protection and E-Governance Issues in Public Health -- GIS and Public Health in the Information Society / Massimo Craglia, Alessandro Annoni -- Data Protection and Medical Research / Deryck Beyleveld, David Townend -- Public and Patient Attitudes Toward the Use of Their Health Information: A Review of the Literature / Rupert Suckling, Darren Shickle, Susan Wallace -- Mobile Phone Positioning Systems and the Accessibility of Health Services / Markku Loytonen, Clive E. Sabel -- Conclusions and Future Prospects / Massimo Craglia, Ravi Maheswaran.

ISBN

• 0415306558
• 9780415306553
• 9780203720349
• 0203720342

LCCN

2003069767

OCLC

• ocm54001176
• 54001176
• SCSB-9717217

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library