| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 174 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Contents |
GIS concepts and operations -- GIS and geographic data -- Spatial analysis software and methods -- Point pattern methods of disease analysis -- Areal methods of disease analysis -- Interpolation and associative analysis -- Initiating a GIS project in spatial epidemiology -- Current GIS research in health care and disease analyses |
| Summary |
Containing method descriptions and step-by-step procedures, the "Spatial Epidemiological Approaches in Disease Mapping and Analysis" equips readers with skills to prepare health-related data in the proper format, process these data using relevant functions and software, and display the results as mapped or statistical summaries. Describing the wide range of available methods and key GIS concepts for spatial epidemiology, this book illustrates the utilities of the software using real-world data. Additional topics include geographic data models, address matching, geostatistical analysis, universal kriging, point pattern analysis, kernel density, spatio-temporal display, and disease surveillance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Medical geography.
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Medical mapping.
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Geographic information systems.
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Epidemiologic Methods
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Geographic Information Systems
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Topography, Medical
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Geography
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geographic information systems.
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MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
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MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
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Geographic information systems
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Medical geography
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Medical mapping
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
So, Fun Mun.
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Chan, Ka Wing.
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| ISBN |
9781420045536 |
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1420045539 |
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1281723754 |
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9781281723758 |
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