GIS and Epidemiology

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GIS and Epidemiology

• Looking at AIDS and Influenza

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GIS in Healthcare

• Long traditions for studying the spatial patterns
  of health and disease pre-dating GIS
  technologies.
• How does the use of modern GIS tools give added
  value to the study of health research?
• Databases and Increased numbers of Data
• Visual representations
• Surveillance and monitoring

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GIS in Healthcare 2

• Interaction between environmental quality and
  Human health
• Environmental Epidemiology
• Geographical Epidemiology
• The role of GIS as a Decision Support System
• Financial and Ethical issues
• Often highly publicised disease or illness e.g.
  Leukaemia or Meningitis despite lower incidence
• HIV AIDS The War on AIDS G.W.Bush
• Confidentiality of surveillance

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Software Tools

• SPLANCS
• INFO-MAP
• LISP-STAT
• ARC/INFO
• Epi Info 2000

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Epi Info 2000

• Used across Africa for developing non-laboratory
  model system for AIDS
• Replacement for Epi Info 6
• Available at no cost
• Questionnaires developed and customised with ease
• Data can be analysed
• Displayed as Tables, Graphs or Maps