Contents of this web site

This web site is based on a CD-ROM with the same title as above. It also contains software for analyzing the geographic pattern of disease events. The materials on the CD-ROM show the key steps in performing a detailed analysis of health data using GIS:

acquiring digital road maps of local areas from public domain sources or from private vendors;
acquiring software to match addresses stored in health files to the digital map;
making tests of statistical significance for geographical patterns of diseases;
relating the geographic patterns of incidence to socio-economic data from sources such as the U.S. Census;
evaluating the geographical pattern of health facilities in relation to need; and
evaluating alternative locations for appropriate health services development.

Gerard Rushton, Ph.D. has been active in GIS especially in the area of methods of spatial analysis. He has conducted spatial analyses of birth defects and infant mortality for the Iowa Department of Health. Between 1988 and 1992 he served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and a member of the Mapping Science Committee of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Iowa.

Marc Armstrong, Ph.D. has authored many papers in GIS, taught courses in GIS and supervised doctoral students in the area. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Iowa. He is North American editor-elect of the International Journal of GIS and has served as an Associate Editor of Cartography and Geographic Information Systems. He also serves on the editorial boards of Geoinformatica, the Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association and Geographical and Environmental Modelling.


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