▪ Abstract We review literature that uses spatial analytic tools in contexts where Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) is the organizing system for health data or where the methods …

Background To communicate population-based cancer statistics, cancer researchers have a
long tradition of presenting data in a spatial representation, or map. Historically, health data …

Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Practice, first published in 2003, provides a broad ranging
treatment of the field of spatial data analysis. It begins with an overview of spatial data …

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

and chapter 7 focuses on modeling of spatial distribution of diseases. Finally, chapter 8
explains data-driven and knowledge-driven modeling for risk assessment and management …

Abstract Background: The American Cancer Society (ACS), the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the North American …

In the seventeenth century, a map of the plague suggested a radical idea—that the disease
was carried and spread by humans. In the nineteenth century, maps of cholera cases were …

Background Improving cardiovascular health (CVH) of all Americans by 2020 is a strategic
goal of the American Heart Association. Understanding the sources of variation and …

Epidemics and pandemics are geographical in nature and constitute spatial, temporal, and
thematic phenomena across large ranges of scales: local infections with a global spread; …

We introduce an approach to visual analysis of multivariate data that integrates several
methods from information visualization, exploratory data analysis (EDA), and …