1st Edition

Spatial Epidemiological Approaches in Disease Mapping and Analysis

By Poh-Chin Lai, Fun-Mun So, Ka-Wing Chan Copyright 2009
204 Pages
by CRC Press

194 Pages 14 Color & 83 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

194 Pages
by CRC Press

Containing method descriptions and step-by-step procedures, the Spatial Epidemiological Approaches in Disease Mapping and Analysis equips readers with skills to prepare health-related data in the proper format, process these data using relevant functions and software, and display the results as mapped or statistical summaries. Describing the wide range of available methods and key GIS concepts... Read more
Basic GIS Concepts and Operations. Working with Geographic Data. Introducing Key Procedures in GIS for Health-Related Analyses. Point Pattern Analysis. Disease Analysis on Areal Pattern. Spatio-temporal and Associative Analyses. Current GIS Research in Health Care and Disease Analyses. Initiating a GIS Research in Spatial Epidemiology.

Biography

Poh-Chin Lai