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Disease Risk Assessment and GIS Technology

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This chapter describe about the early warning system (EWS) in association with disease risk analysis. Different component of EWS were analyzed for epidemiological surveillance at different scale. This chapter also analyzed the role of Earth observation (EO) in enhancing the visualization of scientific information in disease risk analysis and early warning system. A case study has also been analyzed to understand the role of remote sensing and GIS in kala-azar disease early warning system.

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  1. Department of Science and Technology, Bihar Remote Sensing Application Centre, Patna, Bihar, India

    Gouri Sankar Bhunia

  2. Department of Geography, Raja Narendra Lal Khan Women’s College, Midnapore, West Bengal, India

    Pravat Kumar Shit

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Bhunia, G.S., Shit, P.K. (2019). Disease Risk Assessment and GIS Technology. In: Geospatial Analysis of Public Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01680-7_6

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