URISA'S GIS in Public Health

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Case Studies ยป – Public Health

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To read about case studies related to the GIS in the Public Health area, simply click on any of the following links:

New Zealand Animal Health Board

GIS Uncovers Hospital Infection Transmission Clues

Park Equity Mapping Supports Advocacy for Parks and Healthier Communities

Geovisualizing Data with Ring Maps

Spatial Analysis Gives Insight into Source of Legionnaire’s Disease

Spatial Statistics Provide New Insights

North Carolina Division of Public Health: Mobile GIS Speeds Disaster Relief

South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control: GIS Empowers Emergency Response and Public Health Awareness

Tracking SARS in China with GIS

Water Sources Mapping Contributes to Health and Development Goals in Rwanda: GIS Project Contributes its Drop in the Bucket of Millennium Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa

A Public Health Care Information System Using GIS and GPS: A Case Study of Shiggaon

Case Studies from the South: GIS Management Tools for the control of tropical diseases: applications in Botswana, Senegal, and Morocco

Case Study: San Mateo County Department of Health– GIS, Epidemiology, Disease Control, & Prevention

Participation through Communicative Action: A Case Study of GIS for Addressing Land/Water Development in India

Class Topic

  • A. Creating Asthma Prevalence Map(2008)
  • B. How to Create a Map with Census Data
  • C. Spatial Analysis (RWJ Hospital 5 mile Radius)(2008)
  • D. Spatial Anlysis II (Population-Based Statistics)(2008)
  • E. Visualizing Multiple Physician Office Locations(2008)
  • F. Digitizing (parcel layers)(2008)
  • H. Adding XY Data(2008)
  • I. Geocoding your Data(2008)
  • J. Define Projection(2008)

Class Materials

  • + GIS in Health & Planning Syllabus
  • A. CDC Wonder Data(Health) (2012)
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  • B. Add XY data(2012)
  • C. Spatial Join(2012)
  • D. Hospital Market Analysis(2012)
  • E. Land Use Change Detection(2012)
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