With increasing accessibility to geographic information systems (GIS) software, statisticians
and data analysts routinely encounter scientific data sets with geocoded locations. This has …

The field of spatial epidemiology has evolved rapidly in the past 2 decades. This study
serves as a brief introduction to spatial epidemiology and the use of geographic information …

We provide a relatively non-technical glossary of terms and a description of the tools used in
spatial or geographical epidemiology and associated geographical information systems …

Localization is involved everywhere in epidemiology: health phenomena often involve
spatial relationships among individuals and risk factors related to geography and …

Presenting current research on spatial epidemiology, this book covers topics such as
exposure, chronic disease, infectious disease, accessibility to health care settings and new …

The geographical approach towards the examination of diseases, or spatial health research,
primarily focuses on the mapping of diseases and the correlation of spatial distributions by …

Cancer rate comparisons around the world suggest clear geographic differences that have
only recently been appreciated and evaluated by statistical methods. The goal of this …

At the heart of spatial epidemiology is the need to describe and understand variation in
population health. In this review and introduction to the themed issue on “Spatial Analysis …

Medical geography is incredibly a dynamic sub-discipline of geography which is
conventionally related to the spatial aspects of disease ecology and healthcare …

Spatial epidemiology is the analysis of spatial and space-time distributions of disease data.
Such analysis enables the identification of populations with high relative risks for particular …