Geographic health data : fundamental techniques for analysis

✍ Scribed by Boscoe, Francis P

Publisher: CAB International
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 230
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Focusing 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

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Points, lines, and polygons / Francis P. Boscoe --
Geographic data acquisition / Andrew Curtis and Jacqueline W. Curtis --
Virtual globes and geospatial health / Christopher Saarnak [and others] --
Geocoding and health / Daniel W. Goldberg, Geoffrey M. Jacquez, and Narelle Mullan --
Visualization and cartography / Aldo Aviña and Chetan Tiwari --
Spatial overlays / Daniel W. Goldberg, Myles Cockburn, and Adam T. Naito --
Spatial cluster analysis / Jin Chen --
Smoothing / Chetan Tiwari --
Geographic access to health services / Kevin A. Henry and Kaila McDonald --
Location-allocation modeling / Nathaniel Bell --
Multilevel and hierarchical models for disease mapping / Jarvis Chen.

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