Main description:

Aimed at all types of public health practitioners and theorists, this book is a compilation of methodological and application developments in spatial epidemiological approaches for environmental and public health studies in the Asia Pacific region. It aims to plug a gap in the literature that has seen a shortage of materials documenting the development of health GIS in this crucial part of the world.

Contents:

Exploratory Spatial Analysis Methods in Cancer Prevention and Control.- Exploratory Spatial Analysis Methods in Cancer Prevention and Control.- Environmental Risk Factor Diagnosis for Epidemics.- Environmental Risk Factor Diagnosis for Epidemics.- A Study on Spatial Decision Support Systems for Epidemic Disease Prevention Based on ArcGIS.- A Study on Spatial Decision Support Systems for Epidemic Disease Prevention Based on ArcGIS.- Development of a Cross-Domain Web-based GIS Platform to Support Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases.- Development of a Cross-Domain Web-based GIS Platform to Support Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases.- A GIS Application for Modeling Accessibility to Health Care Centers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.- A GIS Application for Modeling Accessibility to Health Care Centers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.- Human and Environmental Factors.- Applying GIS in Physical Activity Research: Community 'Walkability' and Walking Behaviors.- Objectively Assessing' Walkability' of Local Communities: Using GIS to Identify the Relevant Environmental Attributes.- Developing Habitat-suitability Maps of Invasive Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia.L) in China Using GIS and Statistical Methods.- An Evaluation of a GlS-aided Garbage Collection Service for the Eastern District of Tainan City.- A Study of Air Quality Impacts on Upper Respiratory Tract Diseases.- Spatial Epidemiology of Asthma in Hong Kong.- Disease Modeling.- An Alert System for Informing Environmental Risk of Dengue Infections.- GIS Initiatives in Improving the Dengue Vector Control.- Socio-Demographic Determinants of Malaria in Highly Infected Rural Areas: Regional Influential Assessment Using GIS.- A Study of Dengue Disease Data by GIS Software in Urban Areas of Petaling Jaya Selatan.- A Spatial-Temporal Approach to Differentiate Epidemic Risk Patterns.- A "Spatiotemporal Analysis of Heroin Addiction" System for Hong Kong.- A Public Health Care Information System Using GIS and GPS: A Case Study of Shiggaon.- GIS and Health Information Provision in Post-Tsunami Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam.- Estimating Population Size Using Spatial Analysis Methods.- Avian Influenza Outbreaks of Poultry in High Risk Areas of Thailand, June-December 2005.