GIS

People use various criteria for choosing routes, which may vary depending on location and time, purpose of trip, and personal preferences. Common routing criteria supported by current navigation services include shortest, fastest, least traffic, and ...

After large-scale disasters, displaced or injured people can lose contact with their family and friends. In an effort to mitigate the effects of these events, the US National Library of Medicine has developed People Locator, a Web-based system that ...

This paper describes an analysis of spatial clustering of colorectal cancer (CRC) in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The objective was to identify geographically based targets for colorectal cancer screening interventions for Blacks and Hispanic Whites, two ...

Disease outbreaks are intimately tied to geographic locations and to times, and as a result, health-related GIS along with open, Web-based data sources are increasingly crucial for public health. One such data source, ProMED-mail, offers disease reports ...

Geographical Information Systems, i.e. GIS, are used to help communities in managing data related to their geographical location. Associating textual data with spatial extension and time can be crucial to understand and improve human health. Exploiting ...

This paper outlines a structured argument for the use of routine health and demographic data to support the delivery of equitable services that are better aligned to the needs of the populations they serve. The paper describes case studies from a ...

Over the last decades the globalization of trade has significantly altered the topology of food supply chains. Even though food-borne illness has been consistently on the decline, the hazardous impact of contamination events is larger [1-3]. Possible ...

One of the challenges in risk analysis has been that the determinants which are identified are based on a causality-driven approach drawn largely from the correlation studies of underlying factors. These approaches not only require numerous thematic ...

Very little is known about how spatial distance influences viral evolution or what local spatio-temporal patterns of evolution look like. In this study, we use data from a randomized controlled efficacy trial of an 11-valent pneumococcal vaccine (PCV) ...

In recent years, advances in Health Geography, Geographical Epidemiology and Public Health Informatics have led to an extensive use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to study a variety of public health issues. Considering infectious disease ...

In areas where there is a high livestock pressure, small variabilities in the infection agents distributions can lead to disastrous consequences on the territory for both animals and humans. Agriculture and animal health parameters are strictly ...

This article examines distance to healthcare services and physician practice size as factors influencing consumer preference and choice when seeking primary healthcare (PHC) in an urban setting. Data from a multipurpose telephone survey for the Canadian ...

This paper describes a tool that will allow public health analysts to estimate infectious disease risk at the country level as a function of different international transportation modes. The prototype focuses on a cholera epidemic originating within ...