Background Survey data are increasingly abundant from many international projects and
national statistics. They are generally comprehensive and cover local, regional as well as …

Use of GIS in public health is currently limited to tracking immunizations, disease
surveillance, and establishing new service areas. The potential of GIS to improve planning …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a prototype exploratory geovisualization
environment based on a usability framework. The environment implements a self-organizing …

Background There is great concern within health surveillance, on how to grapple with
environmental degradation, rapid urbanization, population mobility and growth. The Internet …

New data acquisition techniques are offering tremendous opportunities that result in more
and more geospatial data to be handled. Analyzing these data becomes a difficult task due …

An explosion of interest has been observed in disease mapping with the developments in
advanced spatial statistics and the increasing availability of computerized geographic …

Background A community health assessment (CHA) is used to identify and address health
issues in a given population. Effective CHA requires timely and comprehensive information …

Health data maps and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are significant resources for
health planning and health services delivery, particularly at the local level. The ability to …

Trillions of dollars are spent each year on health care. The US Department of Health and
Human Services keeps track of a variety of health care indicators across the country …

The multidimensional nature of many types of data in modern geography calls for creative
and innovative approaches to their analysis. Statisticians have recently developed methods …