GIS and health / editors, Anthony G. Gatrell and Markku Loytonen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gatrell, Anthony C.

Löytönen, Markku.

European Science Foundation.

Series:

GISDATA ; 6.

GISDATA ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical geography.

Geographic information systems.

Medical statistics--Data processing.

Medical statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia, PA : Taylor & Francis, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An examination of appropriate methodologies for spatial analysis and spatial statistics in analyzing health data. The book explores the links with GIS and the problems associated with such analyses, and the statistical and cartographic methods for

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Editors' Preface; Notes on Editors; Contributors; European Science Foundation; Methodological Issues; GIS and Health Research: An Introduction; GIS as an Enabling Technology; Spatial Statistics and the Analysis of Health Data; Statistical Methods for Spatial Epidemiology: Tests for Randomness; Improving the Geographic Basis of Health Surveillance using GIS; Modelling Spatial Variations in Air Quality using GIS; GIS, Time Geography and Health; Applications; GIS Applications for Environment and Health in Italy

A Multipurpose, Interactive Mortality Atlas of ItalyBayesian Analysis of Emerging Neoplasms in Spain; The Development of an Epidemiological Spatial Information System in the Region of Western Pomerania, Germany; Problems and Possibilities in the Use of Cancer Data by GIS; Experience in Finland; GIS in Public Health; Improving Health Needs Assessment using Patient Register Information in a GIS; Conclusions; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-429-08157-X

0-203-21281-9

1-280-03162-X

1-4822-7309-8

9786610031627

9780429081576

OCLC:

475879506