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 …

The study of the geographical distribution of disease incidence and its relationship to
potential risk factors (referred to here as''geographical epidemiology") has provided, and …

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

There are many different types of statistical methods useful in spatial epidemiology.
Sometimes these are classified according to the nature of the data (area versus point …

This paper has two aims:(1) to summarize various geographic information science methods;
and (2) to provide a review of studies that have employed such methods. Though not meant …

The book contains topics on methodologies and applications of these methods in spatial
epidemiology, a branch of study concerned with describing, quantifying and explaining …

While mapped data provide a common ground for discussions between the public, the
media, regulatory agencies, and public health researchers, the analysis of spatially …

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

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

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 …