Epidemiology and Geography, Principles, Methods and Tools of Spatial Analysis by Souris, Marc -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Table of Contents Foreword Preface Introduction: Software and Databases

I.1. Software I.2. Data for the examples

1 Methodological Context

1.1. A systemic approach to health 1.2. Risk and public health 1.3. Epidemiology 1.4. Health geography 1.5. Spatial analysis for epidemiology and health geography 1.6. Geographic information systems 1.7. Book structure

2 Spatial Analysis of Health Phenomena: General Principles

3 Spatial Data in Health

3.1. Introduction 3.2. Health data 3.3. Spatialization of epidemiological data 3.4. Sources of data

4 Cartographic Representations and Synthesis Tools

4.1. Introduction 4.2. Cartographic representations 4.3. Descriptive statistics and visual synthesis tools 4.4. Interpolations and trend surfaces 4.5. Spatio-temporal animations

5 Spatial Distribution Analysis

5.1. Introduction 5.2. Global spatial analyses 5.3. Local spatial analyses 5.4. Example: emergence and diffusion of avian influenza

6 Spatial Analysis of Risk

6.1. Introduction 6.2. Aggregation-based spatial analyses 6.3. Statistical modeling of spatial data 6.4. An example: analysis of tuberculosis risk factors

7 Space–time Analyses and Modeling

7.1. Time–distance relationships 7.2. Mobile mean points 7.3. Spatio-temporal autocorrelation and clusters 7.4. Emergence, diffusion, pathway 7.5. Spatio-temporal modeling of health phenomena

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