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More Applications of Geographic Information Systems in the Health Sector
1. Applications of Geographic Information Systems to Health Research (Albert et
al, 2000)
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Authors
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Application
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Geography
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Variables
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Concept Illustrated
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Software
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Tyler, 1990
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Search and rescue
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Mirco scale
San Francisco and Alameda County
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Vehicle registration
Power lines
Incoming reports
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Database query Reports
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Unspecified
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Van Creveld, 1991
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Automated emergency response
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West Midlands
345 square miles
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Real-time tracking of 24 rescue vehicles
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Network routing
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West Midland's Command and Control Program
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Fost, 1990
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AIDS surveillance
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San Francisco
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Street network
Questionnaire data
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Database queries
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Mapinfo
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Twigg, 1990
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Assessment of CPs and clinics relative to school
catchment districts
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Enumeration district approximation using Thiessen
polygons
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Households without WC and bath
GP surgeries and clinics
School catchment districts
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Thiessen polygons
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ARC/INFO
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Zwarenstein et al., 1991
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Measuring accessibility
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Defining hospital catchment areas using Thiessen
polygons
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Persons/bed ratios
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Thiessen polygons
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ARC/INFO
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Moore, 1991
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Degree of public exposure Assess health risks from
emissions
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Isopleths of cancer risk
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Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risks
(facility specific)
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Isopleths Modelling
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PC ARC/INFO
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Cuthe et al., 1992
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Prediction of high blood lead levels among children
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Identification of high-risk census tracts
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Blood screening records
Local sources of industrial and hazardous wastes
Traffic volume
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Overlay operations Modelling
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ARC/INFO
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Fitzpatrick-Lins et al., 1990
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Regional variations in radon potential
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Within county
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Underlying geology
Soils
Indoor radon data
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Overlay operation Exploratory data analysis
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ARC/INFO
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Openshaw et al., 1990
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Significance of cancer clusters
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Point locations incidence
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Childhood leukaemia
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Neighbourhood operation-search using radii
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CAM
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Solarsh and Dummann, 1992
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Measles surveillance
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Subdistrict (Edendal Health Ward, southern Natal)
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Hospital inpatient data
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Scale
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DBase Ill PLUS
Epi Info (v. 3 CDC)
Harvard Graphics
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Table Source: Albert DP, Gesler WM and
Levergood B. Spatial Analysis, GIS, and Remote Sensing Applications in the
Health Sciences. Michigan: Ann Arbor Press. 2000 [ISBN 1-57504-101-4]
- A Web-Based Geographic Information System for Health Situation Analysis and Surveillance in the Americas
- Adapting the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care Data Viewer to Different Databases and Geographies (two papers)
- Artificial Neural Networks as a Supplement to GIS Technologies in Epidemiological Studies
Communication of Health Risk Assessment by Integrating GIS with Computer Dispersion Models
GIS Aspects for the Nursing Workforce
- Hamilton County Injury Surveillance System--Using GIS to Target Public Health Prevention Programs
Health Care Marketing: Finding the Right Physicians
- Integrating GIS with Dispersion Software to Determine the Equity and Risk of Air Pollution in East St. Louis, Illinois
- Mapping the Risk of Severe Malaria in Bancoumana, Mali: Spatial Statistical Methods for Studying Malaria at the Village Level
- Public Health Analysis Using Internet and GIS
- Site Community Health Investigation Using GIS
- Spatial Data Products for the Georgia Public Health Data Warehouse
- The Landscape of Breast Cancer in Georgia
- The Lewin Group Applications of GIS in the Health Care Industry
- The Use of GIS for Malaria Surveillance, Program Evaluation, and Planning in Peten, Guatemala
- Use of ArcView Spatial Analyst to Explore Risk Factors Associated with Urban Lead Poisoning
- Using GIS Technology in a Safe Water Study
- You Want 75,000 Unique Maps by WHEN?
Environmental Health Protection
- A Study on Environmental Equity in Albuquerque, New Mexico: Executive Summary
- Health Risk Analysis of the Rio De Janeiro Water Supply Using Geographical Information Systems
- Health Data Mapping in Southeast Toronto: A Collaborative Project
- Exposure Assessment for Trichloroethylene in Drinking Water Using a Geographic Information System
- Environmental Exposure and the Reproductive Health of Hispanic Women in Miami-Dade County, Florida
- Using GIS to Create Childhood Lead Poisoning Guidelines in Florida
- Potential Risk Indexing System (P-RISK Model) Utilizing GIS to Rank Geographic Areas, Industrial Sectors, Facilities, and Other Areas of Concern
- Strategies for GIS and Public Health
- GIS in a County Environmental Health Agency
- Disease Cluster Investigation and GIS: A New Paradigm?
- Perception and Reality: GIS in Environmental Justice through Pollution Prevention
- Using a Geographic Information System to Guide a Community-Based Smoke Detector Campaign
- Kriging Analysis Applied to Ecological Risk Assessment of Harbour
Sediments
- Automated Process for Accessing Vital Health Information at Census Tract Level
- Geographic Information Analysis of Paediatric Lead Poisoning
- A GIS Analysis of Industrial Pollution in Hartford, Illinois
- Exposure Assessment in Environmental Epidemiology: Application of GIS Technology
- The Use of GIS in Identifying Risk of Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Australia
- Drinking Water Source Protection and GIS in Reno County, Kansas
- Geographic Database for Public Health in Portugal: Public Health National Charter
- Screening for Childhood Lead Exposure Using a Geographic Information System and Internet Technology
- Refined Soil Texture Emission Factors for Estimating PM10
- A Public Health Information System for Conducting Community Health Needs Assessment
- Geographic Information Systems and Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in the Tropical Western Atlantic Region
- Web-Based Access and Visualization of Hazardous Air Pollutants
- Geographic Analysis of Childhood Lead Exposure in New York State
- Integration of Particulate Air Modelling with a GIS: An Exposure Assessment of Emissions from Two Phosphate-Processing Plants
- Prenatal Health Behaviours and Birth Outcomes
Implementation and Operations
- Exploring the Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Health along the US-Mexico Border: An Online Interactive Application
- Using GIS as a Management Tool for Health Care Assessment and Planning
- Health Service Sites Access Analysis Using Internet GIS
- GIS Analysis of Brain Cancer Incidence near National Priorities List Sites in New Jersey
- Remote Imaging Applied to Schistosomiasis Control: The Anning River Project
- A Conceptual Model of the Spread of Rabies That Integrates Computer Simulation and Geographic Information System
- A GIS Analysis of Motor Vehicle Injuries in Ventura County, California
- Childhood Lead Poisoning: The Potential and Pitfalls of Applying GIS to the Development of Federal Environmental Justice Policy
Disease Surveillance
- Cancer Incidence in Southington, Connecticut, 1968–1991, in Relation to Emissions from Solvents Recovery Services of New England
- Analysing Motor Vehicle Injuries with the Connecticut Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System GIS
- Using a Proximity Filter to Improve Rabies Surveillance Data
- A GIS-Based, Case-Control Analysis of Cancer Incidence and Land Use Patterns
- Power Lines, Line Transects, and GIS
- Data Issues and Cartographic Techniques as Applied to the Use of GIS in Epidemiology: The Alberta Health Model
- Spatial and Environmental Risk Factors for Diarrhoeal Disease in Matlab, Bangladesh
- Design and Implementation of a Geographic Information System for the General Practice Sector in Victoria, Australia
- The Knox Method and Other Tests for Space-Time Interaction
- Exploratory Data Analysis in a Study of Breast Cancer and the Environment
- Temporal and Spatial Distributions of Cases of Verocytotoxigenic Escherichia Coli Infection in Southern Ontario
- Spatial Patterns of Malaria Case Distribution in Padre Cocha, Peru
- Evidence for Geographic Clustering of Reported Gonorrhoea Cases: A
Neighbourhood-Level Analysis of Environmental Risk
Social and Demographic Analysis
- The New Mexico Mammography Project: Using GIS to Determine Geographic Variation in Mammography
Utilisation
- Population-Based Prevalence of Cocaine in Newborn Infants—Georgia, 1994
- Issues in Environmental Justice Research
- Using GIS to Study the Health Impact of Air Emissions
- Assessing the Accuracy of Geocoding Using Address Data from Birth Certificates: New Jersey, 1989 to 1996
- GIS Analysis of Firearm Morbidity and Mortality in Atlanta, Georgia
- A New GIS-Based Tool for the Assessment of Environmental Equity and Death Rates Near Superfund Sites in the Urban Counties of Washington State
- The Role of Geographic Information Systems in Population Health
- GIS in Community Health Assessment and Improvement
- Characterising the Environmental Features of a Region for a Community-Level Health Study of Breast Cancer
- Using a Comprehensive Community Health Information System for Public Health Planning and Program Delivery
- GIS for Community Health Planning: A Guide for Software Developers
- Nutrition Risk of Older Persons Participating in Home-Delivered and Congregate Meal Programs in Relationship to Demographics and Community Resources
- Plotting Rural Households Where Map Details Are Insufficient: The Use of GPS in the Keokuk County Rural Health Study
- An EPA Region 2 GIS Application for Identifying Environmental Justice
Area
- Understanding the Role of Geospatial Information Technologies in Environmental and Public Health: Applications and Research Directions
- Spatial Analysis of Premature Deaths among African-American Males in Fulton County (Atlanta), Georgia
- Regional Patterns of Alcohol-Specific Mortality in the United States
- Warren County Landfill: Still Provocative After All These Years
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