Geospatial Technologies for Urban Health / edited by Yongmei Lu, Eric Delmelle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lu, Yongmei, editor.

Delmelle, Eric, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Earth and Environmental Science (Springer-11646)

Global perspectives on health geography 2522-8005

Global Perspectives on Health Geography, 2522-8005

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban geography.

Geographic information systems.

Public health.

Medical geography.

Computer simulation.

Big data.

Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).

Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.

Public Health.

Medical Geography.

Simulation and Modeling.

Big Data.

Local Subjects:

Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).

Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.

Public Health.

Medical Geography.

Simulation and Modeling.

Big Data.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 259 pages) : 60 illustrations, 49 illustrations in color.

Edition:

First edition 2020.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This volume presents a timely collection of research papers on the progress, opportunities, and challenges related to the advancement of geospatial technologies for applications in urban health research and management. The chapter authors cover technologies ranging from traditional GIS and remote sensing technologies, to recently developed tracking/locational technologies and volunteered geographic information (VGI). In four main sections, the book uniquely contributes to the conversation of how geospatial technologies and other GIScience research may be enhanced by addressing the data and challenges presented by urban health issues. The book is intended for those with backgrounds in health and medical geography, social epidemiology, urban planning, health management, and lifestyle research. The book starts with an introduction by the editors, providing an overview of traditional and emerging geospatial technologies and how they each can significantly contribute to urban health studies. Section 1 covers urban health risk and disease, and analyses the spatial and temporal patterns of selected urban health issues. Section 2 addresses urban health service access, and demonstrates how traditional and new geospatial technologies apply to different segments of urban populations facing varied challenges. Section 3 focuses on incorporating geospatial technologies in promoting healthy behaviours and lifestyles in urban settings. Section 4 assesses how geospatial technologies may be incorporated into urban health policies and management practices. Adopting a forward-looking perspective, these papers examine the various health challenges in urban systems, and explore how new and emerging geospatial technologies will need to develop to address these problems. .

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I. Urban Health Risk and Disease

Chapter 2. Geospatial Approaches to Measuring Personal Heat Exposure and Related Health Effects in Urban Settings

Chapter 3. Geographic variation in Cardiovascular disease mortality: A study of linking risk factors and built environment at a local health unit in Canada

Chapter 4. Evaluating the effect of domain size of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model on regional PM2.5 simulations

Part II- Urban Health Service Access

Chapter 5. Serving a Segregated Metropolitan Area: Disparities in Spatial Access to Primary Care Physicians in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Chapter 6. Considerations When Using Individual GPS Data in Food Environment Research: A Scoping Review of 'Selective (Daily) Mobility Bias' in GPS Exposure Studies and its Relevance to the Retail Food Environment

Chapter 7. Dynamic Emergency Medical Service Dispatch: Role of Spatiotemporal Machine Learning

Part III. Healthy Behavior and Urban Lifestyle

Chapter 8. Incorporating Online Survey and Social Media Data into a GIS Analysis for Measuring Walkability

Chapter 9. Leveraging social media to track urban park quality for improved citizen health

Part IV. Health Policies and Urban Health Management

Chapter 10. Spatio-temporal Analysis and Data Mining of the 2014-2016 Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in West Africa

Chapter 11. Extending Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) with Geospatial Software as a Service: Participatory Asset Mapping Infrastructures for Urban Health

Chapter 12. Improving Urban and Peri-Urban Health Outcomes Through Early Detection and Aid Planning.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-030-19573-1

9783030195731

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.