Some Applications of Geomatics in the Health Sector

• 4.1 Overview of GIS for Health Organisations

• 4.2 WHO HealthMap

• 4.3 A Geographic Information System for Leprosy Elimination (WHO LEP)

• 4.4 MARA/ARMA (Mapping Malaria Risk in Africa / Atlas du Risque de la Malaria en Afrique)

• 4.5 GIS in Public Health (Chicago School of Public Health)

• 4.6 GIS Brings Physicians and Patients Together (Avenir)

• 4.7 The Field Medical Surveillance System (FMSS)

• 4.8 Mapping to the Human Body (BodyViewer)

• 4.9 The GIS for the Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project (HealthGIS-LIBCSP)

• 4.10 The Maryland Electronic Reporting and Surveillance System (MERSS)

• 4.11 GIS in the NHS; SAHSU; The UK Public Health Observatories

• 4.12 The West Midlands Health GIS Service

• 4.13 London Ambulance Service GIS Experience

• 4.14 More Applications of Geographic Information Systems in the Health Sector

• 4.15 Descriptive review of geographic mapping of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) on the Internet (MN Kamel Boulos)

• 4.16 Location-based health information services: a new paradigm in personalised information delivery (MN Kamel Boulos)

• 4.17 The use of interactive graphical maps for browsing medical/health Internet information resources (MN Kamel Boulos)

• 4.18 A simple method for serving Web hypermaps with dynamic database drill-down (MN Kamel Boulos et al)

• 4.19 Is NHS dentistry in crisis? 'Traffic light' maps of dentists distribution in England and Wales (Research paper) Companion demonstration site (MN Kamel Boulos and GP Phillipps)

• 4.20 Web GIS in practice: an interactive geographicalinterface to English Primary Care Trust performanceratings for 2003 and 2004 (paper) Companion interactive Web maps (MN Kamel Boulos)

• 4.21 Geographic information systems and the spiritual dimension of health: a short position paper (MN Kamel Boulos)

• 4.22 Finding the best path to take (A national strategy for health GIS applications). Health Director (published by GovNet Communications, UK) November 2004 (MN Kamel Boulos)

• 4.23 Web GIS in practice II: interactive SVG maps of diagnoses of sexually transmitted diseases by Primary Care Trust in London, 1997 – 2003 (paper) Companion interactive Web maps (MN Kamel Boulos et al)

• 4.24 Spatially Enabling the UK National Health Service. GIS@development 2005 Jun;9(6):38-40 (MN Kamel Boulos)

• 4.25 Using software agents to preserve individual health data confidentiality in micro-scale geographical analyses. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Available online 26 July 2005 (MN Kamel Boulos et al)

• 4.26 Web GIS in practice III: creating a simple interactive map of England's Strategic Health Authorities using Google Maps API, Google Earth KML, and MSN Virtual Earth Map Control (paper) Companion interactive Web maps: Google Maps API version, Google Earth KML version, and MSN Virtual Earth Map Control version (MN Kamel Boulos)

• 4.27 Web GIS in practice IV: publishing your health maps and connecting to remote WMS sources using the Open Source UMN MapServer and DM Solutions MapLab (paper/tutorial) (MN Kamel Boulos and K Honda)

(In addition to the other health applications of geomatics presented elsewhere in this course)

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