Geographic Health Data ：Fundamental Techniques for Analysis

Publication subTitle ：Fundamental Techniques for Analysis

Author： Boscoe   F.P.  

Publisher： CABI Publishing‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9781780640907

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781780640891

Subject： R1 Preventive Medicine , Health

Keyword： Medical Public Health

Language： ENG

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Description

Focussing on proven techniques for most real-world data sets, this book presents an overview of the analysis of health data involving a geographic component, in a way that is accessible to any health scientist or student comfortable with large data sets and basic statistics, but not necessarily with any specialized training in geographic information systems (GIS). Providing clear, straightforward explanations with worldwide examples and solutions, the book describes applications of GIS in disaster response.

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Contents

Contributors

Introduction

1 Points, Lines and Polygons

2 Geographic Data Acquisition

3 Virtual Globes and Geospatial Health

4 Geocoding and Health

5 Visualization and Cartography

6 Spatial Overlays

7 Spatial Cluster Analysis

8 Methods for Creating Smoothed Maps of Disease Burdens

9 Geographic Access to Health Services

10 Location–allocation Modelling for Health Services Research in Low Resource Settings

11 Multilevel and Hierarchical Models for Disease Mapping

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