Spatial Analysis in Epidemiology

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Spatial Analysis in Epidemiology
Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0198509898 | 2008-07-25 | PDF | 208 pages | 3 Mb


This book provides a practical, comprehensive and up-to-date overview
of the use of spatial statistics in epidemiology - the study of the
incidence and distribution of diseases. Used appropriately, spatial
analytical methods in conjunction with GIS and remotely sensed data can
provide significant insights into the biological patterns and processes
that underlie disease transmission. In turn, these can be used to
understand and predict disease prevalence. This user-friendly text
brings together the specialised and widely-dispersed literature on
spatial analysis to make these methodological tools accessible to
epidemiologists for the first time.
With its focus is on application rather than theory, Spatial Analysis
in Epidemiology includes a wide range of examples taken from both
medical (human) and veterinary (animal) disciplines, and describes both
infectious diseases and non-infectious conditions. Furthermore, it
provides worked examples of methodologies using a single data set from
the same disease example throughout, and is structured to follow the
logical sequence of description of spatial data, visualisation,
exploration, modelling and decision support. This accessible text is
aimed at graduate students and researchers dealing with spatial data in
the fields of epidemiology (both medical and veterinary), ecology,
zoology and parasitology, environmental science, geography and
statistics


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