Author: Andrew Curtis
Edition: 1
Publisher: IRM Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1591407567
Geographic Information Systems and Public Health: Eliminating Perinatal Disparity
Designed to introduce a community health group to the potential of using a Geographic Information System to improve birth outcomes. Medical books Geographic Information Systems and Public Health. The book is aimed at novice to intermediate level GIS users, though even advanced researcherswill gain from the detailed health examples. Chapters in this book provide an overview of why geography is important in the investigation of health, the importance of the four main components of a GIS (data input, manipulation, analysis and visualization), how important neighborhood context is when using a GIS, and the general differences found between urban and rural health environments. In addition, the reader is introduced to the importance of GIS and confidentially, how a mobile urban population may impact GIS findings, and why pregnant mothers should catered for when making disaster response plans. Examples are drawn heavily from the Baton Rouge Healthy Start program, with one chapter providing an overview guide as to how GIS can be incorporated in the initial grant writing stage for such a program Medical books Introduction To Geographic Information Systems In Public Health. Categories: Geographic information systems, Public health, Geographic information systems. Contributors: Alan Melnick - Author. Format: Paperback
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Categories: Geographic information systems, Public health, Geographic information systems. Contributors: Alan Melnick - Author. Format: Paperback
Categories: Geographic information systems, Public health, Geographic information systems. Contributors: Alan Melnick - Author. Format: Paperback
Categories: Geographic information systems, Public health, Geographic information systems. Contributors: Alan Melnick - Author. Format: Paperback
Aspen Publishers Inc.,US | 2002 | 300 pages | ISBN-13: 9780834218789 | ISBN-10: 083421878X | You save 10%
Medical Book Geographic Information Systems and Public Health
The book is aimed at novice to intermediate level GIS users, though even advanced researcherswill gain from the detailed health examples. Chapters in this book provide an overview of why geography is important in the investigation of health, the importance of the four main components of a GIS (data input, manipulation, analysis and visualization), how important neighborhood context is when using a GIS, and the general differences found between urban and rural health environments. In addition, the reader is introduced to the importance of GIS and confidentially, how a mobile urban population may impact GIS findings, and why pregnant mothers should catered for when making disaster response plans. Examples are drawn heavily from the Baton Rouge Healthy Start program, with one chapter providing an overview guide as to how GIS can be incorporated in the initial grant writing stage for such a program.
