URISA'S GIS in Public Health

Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)
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  • About Us
  • Online Tutorials
  • Related Health Care Resources
  • Case Studies
    • – Public Health
    • – Human Services
    • – Hospitals and Health Systems
    • – Managed Care
  • Additional Online Sources

Online Tutorials

 
Additional Online Tutorials
  • GIS Tutorials and Exercises (Harvard)
  • The Map Collection (Yale)
  • ArcGIS Desktop 10 Tutorials (Esri)
  • ArcGIS  3D Analyst Tutorial (Esri)
  • GIS: Toolbar
  • ArcGIS Desktop Tutorial (University of Arkansas Libraries)
  • Tutorial-ArcGIS (PASDA)
  • PASDA(Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access)
  • DREW GIS Tutorials Library (Document)
  • CADCA GIS Tutorials&Trainings (Video)
Online Data Sources (Free/Public Domain/CC-Licencsed GIS data):
  • Data.gov
  • EROS Data Center
  • US Census Bureau
  • National Atlas of the United States
  • Websites for GIS Health Data
  • Environmental Public Health Data
  • ArcGIS Resources (Esri)
  • MapCruzin.Com
  • Natural Earth
  • Hipkiss’s Scanned Old Maps
  • NASA/GSFC, Rapid Response
  • Atlas of the Biosphere – Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE)
  • World Bank Development Indicators (tabular data)
  • USGS U.S. Geological Survey
  • Ordanance Survey OpenData
  • Police UK Crime Data
Online GIS Curriculum Databases:
  • GIS Distance Learning Programs
  • ESRI’s Online Database

Other Mapping Applications :

  • CrimeStat
  • MapPoint [Microsoft]
  • MapInfo [Pitney Bowes]
  • AGIS for Windows (Shareware)
  • GeoMetrx
  • Quantum GIS(QGIS)
  • SAGA (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses)
  • Mobile GIS (Arc GIS for Smartphone & Tablets) [Esri]

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)
  • Additional Online Sources
  • B. Add XY data(2012)
  • C. Spatial Join(2012)
  • D. Hospital Market Analysis(2012)
  • E. Land Use Change Detection(2012)
  • Online Tutorials
  • Students' Project Samples
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