Geographic Information Systems and Health ApplicationsRelease Date: July, 2002. Copyright © 2003. 344 pages.
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In Stock. Have it as soon as May. 24 with express shipping*. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-042-4, ISBN13: 9781591400424, ISBN10: 1591400422, EISBN13: 9781591400769  | | TopDescriptionThe use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the health sector is an idea whose time has come. The current applications of GIS in health are diverse and extensive. The present GIS environment is heavily driven by technology and such an approach is indeed logical for the most part. However, the needs of less-developed countries in utilizing the concepts and technologies of mapping should not be neglected in the continuing evolution of GIS. Geographic Information Systems and Health Applications presents a sampling of the many applications utilizing GIS in the field of health. TopTable of Contents and List of Contributors
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Gregory Pappas (Macro International Inc., USA), Mohammod Akhter (American Public Health Association, USA)
In this chapter we discuss the importance of community in public health science and practice. Community is —first and foremost— place. The science of place and its i...
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Samuel Soret (Loma Linda University, USA), Karl J. McCleary (The Pennsylvania State University, USA), Patrick A. Rivers (Arizona State University, USA), Susanne B. Montgomery (Loma Linda University, USA)
The emerging discipline of health geographics uses the concepts and techniques of medical geography (Meade, Florin & Gesler, 1988) together with modern automated Geo...
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J.ane L. McCall (Baystate Medical Center GIS Program, USA), Amy K. Pasini (Baystate Medical Center GIS Program, USA), Richard B. Wait (Baystate Medical Center GIS Program, USA)
This chapter describes two case studies that demonstrate how the technology of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be combined with community data to address he...
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Robert Lipton (Prevention Research Center, USA), D. M. Gorman (The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, USA), Paul Gruenewald (Buffalo State College-State University of New York, USA)
This chapter describes research that uses spatial modeling to address pressing issues related to a public health understanding of alcohol problems and violence. Firs...
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Jane L. McCall (Baystate Medical Center GIS Program, USA)
In the last 20 years, Geographic Information Systems (GISs) have had an ever-increasing impact on the course of research and planning in many diverse fields, includi...
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Scott Carlin (Southampton College, Long Island University, USA)
The Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition (HBCAC) recently completed a survey of town residents regarding breast cancer. This chapter reviews how this community...
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Daikwon Han (University at Buffalo, USA), Peter A. Rogerson (University at Buffalo, USA)
This chapter examines spatio-temporal changes in breast cancer clustering in the Northeastern United States to assess the statistical significance of clusters using...
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C. L. Vidal-Rodeiro (University of Aberdeen, UK), M. I. Santiago-Perez (Public Health Department of Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain), E. Vazquez-Fernandez (Public Health Department of Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain), M. E. Lopez-Vizcaino (Galician Statistical Institute, Santiago de Compostela, Spain), X. Hervada-Vidal (Public Health Department of)
The purpose of this chapter is to review and compare two techniques to map the mortality risk of a disease in small geographical areas. The first one is a classical...
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Andrew Curtis (Louisiana State University, USA), Michael Leitner (Louisiana State University, USA), Cathleen Hanlon (U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA)
One of the most powerful uses of GIS in the field of public health is as an exploratory data analysis tool. By combining the three post-input defining components of...
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Michael Emch (Portland State University, USA), Mohammod Ali (International Vaccine Institute, Korea)
This chapter describes the use of disease clustering methods using diarrheal disease data from a rural area of Bangladesh for which the authors created a household-l...
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Edmund Y.W. Seto (University of California at Berkeley, USA), Bing Xu (University of California at Berkeley, USA), Weiping Wu (Shanghai Institute of Parasitic Disease, PC China), George Davis (George Washington University Medical Center, USA), Dongchuan Qiu (Sichuan Institute of Parasitic Disease, PC China), Xueguang Gu (Sichuan Institute)
Despite considerable achievements in the control of schistosomiasis in China, it remains one of the country’s most serious public health problems. Geographic informa...
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M. E. Folkoff (Salisbury University, USA), E. A. Venso (Salisbury University, USA), D. W. Harris (Salisbury University, USA), M. F. Frana (Salisbury University, USA), M. S. Scott (Salisbury University, USA)
This study is only the second to use DNA fingerprinting technology in Maryland to identify fecal coliform sources in order to guide the implementation of water pollu...
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Mohammod Ali (International Vaccine Institute, Korea), Christine Ashley (University of Minnesota, USA), M. Zahirul Haq (International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh), Peter Kim Streatfield (International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh)
This chapter describes the use of geographic information systems to predict spatial risk of child survival problems in a rural area of Bangladesh. Demographic, healt...
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Ge Lin (West Virginia University, USA)
In this chapter, we examine travel distance and its effect on total and avoidable hospitalizations using data from the capital health region in British Columbia, Can...
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Wei Luo (Northern Illinois University, USA), Fahui Wang (Northern Illinois University, USA)
This chapter introduces two new GIS-supported methods of measuring accessibility to primary healthcare. The improved floating catchment method defines the service ar...
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Evan R. Wolarsky (Healthcare Consultant, USA)
Publicly available data of all hospital discharges has been available since Medicare changed to a case-based reimbursement system. A non-confidential version of this...
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Lars Brabyn (University of Waikato, New Zealand), Paul Gower (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Accessibility to general practitioners (GPs) is an important health issue that has financial, cultural and geographical dimensions. This chapter concentrates on a Ge...
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TopReviews and Testimonials
The mid nineties saw a profusion of interest in GIS applications to health. This helped to promote the dissemination and acceptance of this new data management, analysis and display methodology in a variety of health fields. In many cases, however, data was displayed in an exploratory fashion, without enough input being given to the methodological aspects of spatial data measurement, analysis and description. This resulted in simplistic, and sometimes erroneous, interpretations leading to some wariness and disillusionment with GIS as a tool that could be used in a wide variety of settings with some level of ease and confidence. This book is an important step in attempting to address this issue. It gives examples of how a variety of methodological approaches can be used for health applications utilizing GIS. While the book does set a high methodological standard for the application of this technology, it offers insight to how this can be applied in a wide variety of settings, ranging form academic to service delivery, industrial to developing country settings.
– Dr Saqib Shahab, Medical Health Officer, Canada
This book is remarkable in shedding light on the spatial aspects of disease and its socioeconomic correlates, public health, preventative measures, and the availability of health resources. The chapters include a variety of spatial and statistical analysis models and techniques, drawn from public health, epidemiology, and medicine. Often geographic information systems (GIS) are utilized as a complement along with other technologies and techniques, such as GPS, remote sensing, and market share analysis. The scope of the book is worldwide, with studies of health problems in North America, Asia, and the Pacific. The contributions provide valuable insights into disease and public health problems and solutions, and elucidate a group of current spatial and GIS models and methods that scientists and practitioners can apply to similar studies. This book is an excellent contribution to the GIS and health literature.
– James B. Pick, University of Redlands, USA
In many ways this volume is successful in bringing together a comprehensive picture of how GIS are being used for health applications.
– Annals of the Geographic Information Systems and Health Applications, March 2004, Volume 94, Number 1.
TopAuthor(s)/Editor(s) BiographyOmar A. Khan has a keen interest in the field of health and GIS and has served as co-chair of the First and Second International Health Geographics Conferences. His interests include health care for the under-served and an active research interest in international health. Khan is currently at the University of Vermont. He served as the first Director of the South Asia Infectious Disease Network (SAIDNET) and presently works with the South Asia Public Health Forum as well. He has served as a consultant for the US Dept of Health & Human Services as well as international disease control programs such as the AIDS International Training & Research Program (AITRP), through the University of Alabama School of Public Health. Ric Skinner is the Senior GIS Coordinator in the Geographic Information System Program in the Department of Surgery at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Ric provides overall coordination of GIS activities at BMC and with BMC’s community, state and national partners, as well as supports GIS Program staff, in the application of GIS to healthcare. Ric has over 30 years of professional experience: 12 years in the utilization of GIS in healthcare and environmental areas, and over 20 years pursuing research in environmental management and assessment. Prior to BMC, he was a Research Scientist in the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services providing GIS support on epidemiology studies, specifically in cancer control and prevention. He was also the department’s GIS Coordinator and Representative to the Interagency GIS Team. In the mid-1990s, Ric was an independent consultant providing GIS services to several hospitals in eastern Pennsylvania and a major healthcare information provider in Virginia. The majority of his professional career was spent in environmental monitoring and surveillance for electric power companies in Michigan and Pennsylvania. During this time he also designed, constructed and operated three aquatic bioassay laboratories. Ric initiated and co-chaired the First International Health Geographics Conference in 1998 in Baltimore, MD, and co-chaired the Second International Health Geographics Conference in 2000 in Washington, DC. He is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Health Geographics. He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications, reports and presentations on such topics as GIS, health geographics, and environmental management and assessment. |
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