Public health, GIS, and spatial analytic tools

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 24, Issue , 2003, Pages 43-56

  Rushton, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease maps; Exploratory data analysis; Geocoding; Monte Carlo simulation; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038165435     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.24.012902.140843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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