Spatial Analysis in Epidemiology
Dirk U. Pfeiffer, Timothy P. Robinson, Mark Stevenson, Kim B. Stevens, David J. Rogers, and Archie C. A. Clements
Abstract
This book provides an 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 book brings together the specialised and widely-dispersed literature on spatial analysis to make these methodological tools accessible to epidemiologists for the first time. W ... More
This book provides an 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 book 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 on application rather than theory, this book includes examples taken from both medical (human) and veterinary (animal) disciplines, and describes both infectious diseases and non-infectious conditions. It also 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.
Keywords:
incidence,
distribution,
diseases,
GIS,
disease transmission,
infectious diseases,
non-infectious diseases
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198509882 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2008 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198509882.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Dirk U. Pfeiffer, author
Epidemiology Division, Royal Veterinary College, University of London, UK
Timothy P. Robinson, author
Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, Italy
Mark Stevenson, author
Epicentre, Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, New Zealand
Kim B. Stevens, author
Epidemiology Division, Royal Veterinary College, University of London, United Kingdom
David J. Rogers, author
Department of Zoology, Oxford University, UK
Archie C. A. Clements, author
Division of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia
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