GIS for Health and the Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Exploratory Spatial Analysis Methods in Cancer Prevention and Control

   1. Exploratory Spatial Analysis Methods in Cancer Prevention and Control

      • Gerard Rushton

      Pages 1-14

3. Environmental Risk Factor Diagnosis for Epidemics

   1. Environmental Risk Factor Diagnosis for Epidemics

      • Jin-feng Wang

      Pages 15-29

4. A Study on Spatial Decision Support Systems for Epidemic Disease Prevention Based on ArcGIS

   1. A Study on Spatial Decision Support Systems for Epidemic Disease Prevention Based on ArcGIS

      • Kun Yang, Shung-yun Peng, Quan-li Xu, Yan-bo Cao

      Pages 30-43

5. Development of a Cross-Domain Web-based GIS Platform to Support Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases

   1. Development of a Cross-Domain Web-based GIS Platform to Support Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases

      • Cheong-wai Tsoi

      Pages 44-56

6. A GIS Application for Modeling Accessibility to Health Care Centers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

   1. A GIS Application for Modeling Accessibility to Health Care Centers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

      • Abdulkader Murad

      Pages 57-70

7. Human and Environmental Factors

   1. Applying GIS in Physical Activity Research: Community ‘Walkability’ and Walking Behaviors

      • Ester Cerin, Eva Leslie, Neville Owen, Adrian Bauman

      Pages 72-89

   2. Objectively Assessing’ Walkability’ of Local Communities: Using GIS to Identify the Relevant Environmental Attributes

      • Eva Leslie, Ester Cerin, Lorinne duToit, Neville Owen, Adrian Bauman

      Pages 91-104

   3. Developing Habitat-suitability Maps of Invasive Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia.L) in China Using GIS and Statistical Methods

      • Hao Chen, Lijun Chen, Thomas P. Albright

      Pages 105-121

   4. An Evaluation of a GlS-aided Garbage Collection Service for the Eastern District of Tainan City

      • Jung-hong Hong, Yue-cyuan Deng

      Pages 122-141

   5. A Study of Air Quality Impacts on Upper Respiratory Tract Diseases

      • Huey-hong Hsieh, Bing-fang Hwang, Shin-jen Cheng, Yu-ming Wang

      Pages 142-153

   6. Spatial Epidemiology of Asthma in Hong Kong

      • Franklin F. M. So, P. C. Lai

      Pages 154-169

8. Disease Modeling

   1. An Alert System for Informing Environmental Risk of Dengue Infections

      • Ngai Sze Wong, Chi Yan Law, Man Kwan Lee, Shui Shan Lee, Hui Lin

      Pages 171-183

   2. GIS Initiatives in Improving the Dengue Vector Control

      • Mandy Y. F. Tang, Cheong-wai Tsoi

      Pages 184-194

   3. Socio-Demographic Determinants of Malaria in Highly Infected Rural Areas: Regional Influential Assessment Using GIS

      • Devi. Prashanthi, C. R. Ranganathan, S. Balasubramanian

      Pages 195-205

   4. A Study of Dengue Disease Data by GIS Software in Urban Areas of Petaling Jaya Selatan

      • Mokhtar Azizi Mohd Din, Md. Ghazaly Shaaban, Taib Norlaila, Leman Norariza

      Pages 206-213

   5. A Spatial-Temporal Approach to Differentiate Epidemic Risk Patterns

      • Tzai-hung Wen, Neal H Lin, Katherine Chun-min Lin, I-chun Fan, Ming-daw Su, Chwan-chuen King

      Pages 214-227

   6. A “Spatiotemporal Analysis of Heroin Addiction” System for Hong Kong

      • Phoebe Tak-ting Pang, Lee Phoebe, Wai-yan Leung, Shui-shan Lee, Hui Lin

      Pages 229-242

   7. A Public Health Care Information System Using GIS and GPS: A Case Study of Shiggaon

      • Ashok Hanjagi, Priya Srihari, A.S. Rayamane

      Pages 243-255

   8. GIS and Health Information Provision in Post-Tsunami Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam

      • Paul Harris, Dylan Shaw

      Pages 256-270

“As the world becomes more integrated through the trade of goods and services and capital flows, it has become easier for diseases to spread through states, over borders and across oceans — and to do serious damage to vulnerable human and animal populations. ” American RadioWorks and NPR News, 2001 The global cost of communicable diseases is expected to rise. SARS has put the world on alert. We have now Avian Flu on the watch. Recognizing the global nature of threats posed by new and re-emerging infectious d- eases and the fact that many recent occurrences originated in the Asia - cific regions, there has been an increased interest in learning and knowing about disease surveillance and monitoring progresses made in these - gions. Such knowledge and awareness is necessary to reduce conflict, d- comfort, tension and uneasiness in future negotiations and global coope- tion. Many people are talking about the GIS and public and environmental health. The way we make public policies on health and environmental m- ters is changing, and there is little doubt that GIS provides powerful tools for visualizing and linking data in public health surveillance. This book is a result of the International Conference in GIS and Health held on 27-29 June 2006 in Hong Kong. The selected chapters are organized into four themes: GIS Informatics; Human and Environmental Factors; Disease modeling; and Public health, population health technologies, and surve- lance.

• ArcGIS
• Development in the Asia Pacific Regions
• Environmental and Public Health Systems
• Epidemiology
• GIS
• Geographic Information Systems
• Geoinformationssysteme
• Spacial Epidemiological Applications
• digital elevation model
• geospatial

• Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong, China

  Poh C. Lai

• ERM Hong Kong, China

  Ann S. H. Mak

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