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Approximately 13 000 cases of AIDS were diagnosed and reported in adults in England and Wales to the end of June 1997. It was possible to consider the geographic distribution of cases at a higher resolution than currently used, by creating a dot plot of cases for which a National Grid reference to the Postcode Unit of residence at diagnosis was available. This method excluded 30% of the cases. Alternative methods need to be used which allow consideration of the problems of poor spatial resolution, poor geo-referencing and under-reporting of AIDS cases, at the same time assuring the maintenance of patient confidentiality.
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Molesworth, A.M., Raper, J.F., Unwin, D.J., Evans, B.G. (1998). A Geographic Information System Approach to Mapping AIDS in England and Wales: Standardisation of a Heterogeneous Data Set. In: Gierl, L., Cliff, A.D., Valleron, AJ., Farrington, P., Bull, M. (eds) Geomed ’97. Informatik und Unternehmensführung. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-95397-1_3
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