GIS in Public Health Practice | Environmental Engineering

Product Description

Significant advances in the evaluation and use of geographic information have had a major effect on key elements of public health. Strides in mapping technology as well as the availability and accuracy of health information enable public health practitioners to link and analyze data in new ways at international regional and even street levels. This geographical perspective generates new approaches in the study of communicable disease control environmental health protection health needs assessment planning and policy operational public health management and many other areas. GIS in Public Health Practice includes contributions from the leading researchers in the field who participated in the…