CRC Press - Spatial Health Inequalities: Adapting GIS Tools And Data Analysis (2017 EN)

Author: Esra Ozdenerol
Full Title: Spatial Health Inequalities: Adapting GIS Tools And Data Analysis
Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (August 23, 2016)
Year: 2017
ISBN-13: 9781498701501 (978-1-4987-0150-1)
ISBN-10: 1498701507
Pages: 173
Language: English
Genre: Remote Sensing & GIS; Mapping
File type: EPUB (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: £114.00


The neighborhoods and the biophysical, political, and cultural environments all play a key role in affecting health outcomes of individuals. Unequal spatial distribution of resources such as clinics, hospitals, public transportation, fresh food markets, and schools could make some communities as a whole more vulnerable and less resilient to adverse health effects. This somber reality suggests that it is rather the question of "who you are depends upon where you are" and the fact that health inequality is both a people and a place concern. That is why health inequality needs to be investigated in a spatial setting to deepen our understanding of why and how some geographical areas experience poorer health than others. This book introduces how spatial context shapes health inequalities.

Spatial Health Inequalities: Adapting GIS Tools and Data Analysis demonstrates the spatial health inequalities in six most important topics in environmental and public health, including food insecurity, birth health outcomes, infectious diseases, children’s lead poisoning, chronic diseases, and health care access. These are the topics that the author has done extensive research on and provides a detailed description of the topic from a global perspective. Each chapter identifies relevant data and data sources, discusses key literature on appropriate techniques, and then illustrates with real data with mapping and GIS techniques. This is a unique book for students, geographers, clinicians, health and research professionals and community members interested in applying GIS and spatial analysis to the study of health inequalities.


Features:
✓ The first work that lays out a step-by-step approach to identify relevant GIS applications, spatial methods, data collection and surveillance techniques
✓ Provides practical hands-on knowledge on GIS applications to health inequalities
✓ Focuses on a set of health outcomes that are widespread, and at the same time common cases of populations experiencing health inequalities in the world.
✓ Use of data mostly from the Southern United States, but also includes examples beyond the U.S. The results of this book can serve as a valuable resource for setting relevant research agendas around the world.
✓ Introduces how spatial (i.e., geographic) context shapes health inequalities. This spatial perspective enhances the role that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can serve in understanding health inequalities
✓ Includes a companion web-based resource that provides case studies of health-care scenarios addressing each health inequality topic covered in the text.

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