Gis and Health

by Gatrell, Anthony C.

• ISBN13: 9780748407798
• ISBN10: 0748407790
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Summary

The potential users of GIS for health related analysis and applications are legion. In this edited collection, there are extensive examinations of appropriate methodologies for spatial analysis and spatial statistics in analyzing health data. Chapters explore the links with GIS and consider some of the assumptions and problems associated with such analyses. A range of chapters explore the associations between, for example, air pollution and ill health, and between pesticide exposure and disease risk. The book also covers statistical and cartographic methods for analyzing data for small areas and methods for health assessment needs.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	vii
Editors' Preface	ix
Notes on Editors	xi
Contributors	xii
European Science Foundation	xv
PART ONE Methodological Issues	1	(110)
GIS and Health Research: An Introduction	3	(14)
Anthony C. Gatrell
Markku Loytonen
GIS as an Enabling Technology	17	(12)
Geoffrey M. Jacquez
Spatial Statistics and the Analysis of Health Data	29	(20)
Robert Haining
Statistical Methods for Spatial Epidemiology: Tests for Randomness	49	(14)
Martin Kulldorff
Improving the Geographic Basis of Health Surveillance using GIS	63	(18)
Gerard Rushton
Modelling Spatial Variations in Air Quality using GIS	81	(16)
Susan Collins
GIS, Time Geography and Health	97	(14)
Markku Loytonen
PART TWO Applications	111	(98)
GIS Applications for Environment and Health in Italy	113	(12)
Stefania Trinca
A Multipurpose, Interactive Mortality Atlas of Italy	125	(14)
Mario Braga
Cesare Cislaghi
Giorgio Luppi
Carola Tasco
Bayesian Analysis of Emerging Neoplasms in Spain	139	(14)
Gonzalo Lopez-Abente
The Development of an Epidemiological Spatial Information System in the Region of Western Pomerania, Germany	153	(14)
Nanja van den Berg
Problems and Possibilities in the Use of Cancer Data by GIS --- Experience in Finland	167	(12)
Lyly Teppo
GIS in Public Health	179	(12)
Paul Wilkinson
Christopher Grundy
Megan Landon
Simon Stevenson
Improving Health Needs Assessment using Patient Register Information in a GIS	191	(14)
Andrew Lovett
Robin Haynes
Graham Bentham
Sue Gale
Julii Brainard
Gisela Suennenberg
Conclusions	205	(4)
Anthony C. Gatrell
Markku Loytonen
Index	209