This chapter surveys the principles behind spatial statistics and geographic information
systems (GIS), and their application to epidemiology and public health. Like the other …

This handbook explains how to model epidemiological problems and improve inference
about disease etiology from a geographical perspective. Top epidemiologists, geographers …

This paper summarizes contributions of GIS in epidemiology, and identifies needs required
to support spatial epidemiology as science. The objective of spatial epidemiology is to …

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 …

Spatial epidemiology is the description and analysis of the geographical distribution of
disease. It is more important now than ever, with modern threats such as bio-terrorism …

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

Fast response and decision making about containment, management, eradication and
prevention of diseases, are increasingly important aspects of the work of public health …

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 …

Geographic information systems are powerful automated systems for the capture, storage,
retrieval, analysis, and display of spatial data. While the systems have been in development …

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 …