Spatial Analysis In Health Geography (geographies Of Health Series)
by Pavlos Kanaroglou /
2015 / English / PDF
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Presenting current research on spatial epidemiology, this book
covers topics such as exposure, chronic disease, infectious
disease, accessibility to health care settings and new methods in
Geographical Information Science and Systems. For epidemiologists,
and for the management and administration of health care settings,
it is critical to understand the spatial dynamics of disease. For
instance, it is crucial that hospital administrators develop an
understanding of the flow of patients over time, especially during
an outbreak of a particular disease, so they can plan for
appropriate levels of staffing and to carry out adaptive prevention
measures. Furthermore, understanding where and why a disease occurs
at a certain geographic location is vital for decision makers to
formulate policy to increase the accessibility to health services
(either by prevention, or adding new facilities). Spatial
epidemiology relies increasingly on new methodologies, such as
clustering algorithms, visualization and space-time modelling, the
domain of Geographic Information Science. Implementation of those
techniques appears at an increasing pace in commercial Geographic
Information Systems, alongside more traditional techniques that are
already part of such systems. This book provides the latest methods
in GI Science and their use in health related problems.
Presenting current research on spatial epidemiology, this book
covers topics such as exposure, chronic disease, infectious
disease, accessibility to health care settings and new methods in
Geographical Information Science and Systems. For epidemiologists,
and for the management and administration of health care settings,
it is critical to understand the spatial dynamics of disease. For
instance, it is crucial that hospital administrators develop an
understanding of the flow of patients over time, especially during
an outbreak of a particular disease, so they can plan for
appropriate levels of staffing and to carry out adaptive prevention
measures. Furthermore, understanding where and why a disease occurs
at a certain geographic location is vital for decision makers to
formulate policy to increase the accessibility to health services
(either by prevention, or adding new facilities). Spatial
epidemiology relies increasingly on new methodologies, such as
clustering algorithms, visualization and space-time modelling, the
domain of Geographic Information Science. Implementation of those
techniques appears at an increasing pace in commercial Geographic
Information Systems, alongside more traditional techniques that are
already part of such systems. This book provides the latest methods
in GI Science and their use in health related problems.
