Spring semesters
Public Health 274
3 Units
| The goal of this
course is to familiarize students with applications of Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) in Public Health.
Selected case studies will be presented in order to highlight principles,
methods, and techniques. Topics include making effective disease
surveillance maps, color theory and visualization, global positioning
system (GPS), remote sensing data acquisition, visualization,
classification, and accuracy assessment. Relevant studies will be
presented for students interested in the link between ecology and disease,
infectious disease control, cancer cluster detection, environmental health
and justice. Hands-on exercises and a project will provide practical
experience in the use of GIS and RS software tools and methods for spatial
analysis.
If interested in this course, please contact Dr. Seto for more information
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Instructor: |
Edmund Seto |
Class Format:
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Instruction will
consist of roughly 1/2 lectures and 1/2 case studies and exercises, and project work. Exercises are designed to provide
students with familiarity with using GIS and RS software, and practical
experience in using spatial analyses to solve real Public Health
problems. The project consists of a health-related mapping &
analysis project of the student's own choice and
interest. |
Week |
Date |
Tuesday |
Thursday |
| 1 |
1/18 | Overview/Intro | Getting to know GIS Lab * |
| 2 |
1/25 | Spatial Data | GIS Data Lab * |
| 3 |
2/1 |
Spatial
Analysis |
Spatial Stats Lab * |
| 4 |
2/8 | Census Data | Geocoding Lab * |
| 5 |
2/15 | Geocoding Public Health Data | Intro Remote Sensing |
| 6 |
2/22 | Remote Sensing Preprocessing & Image Enhancement | Remote Sensing Lab 1 * |
| 7 |
3/1 | Remote Sensing Classification | Remote Sensing Lab 2 * |
| 8 | 3/8 |
Remote Sensing Lab 3 * | |
| 9 |
3/15 |
Infectious Diseases | Spatial Modeling Lab * |
| 10 |
3/22 | - Spring Break!
- [ info on final project ] |
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| 11 |
3/29 | Cancer Epidemiology | Cluster Analysis Lab * |
| 12 |
4/5 | Environmental Health | Environmental Justice |
| 13 |
4/12 |
Interpolation & Buffer Analysis Lab * | Environmental Justice Lab * |
| 14 |
4/19 | Healthcare Access | Project Lab |
| 15 | 4/26 | Project Lab | Project Lab |
| 16 | 5/3 | Project Presentations | Project Presentations |
| 17 | 5/10 | Project Presentations |
[ Contact Instructor ]
[ Link to project titles and maps from Spring 2003 ]
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Link to project titles and maps from Spring 2004 ]
[
Link to project titles and maps from Spring 2004 ]
Spatial Data
[ Contact Instructor ]
Cromley E., McLafferty SL., GIS and Public Health, The Guilford Press, New York, 2002.
Melnick AL. Introduction to geographic information systems in public health. Gaithersburg, Md.: Aspen Publishers; 2002.
Elliott P., Wakefield J., Best N., Briggs D. Spatial Epidemiology Methods and Applications. New York. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Bailey TC, Gatrell AC.
Interactive spatial data analysis. Harlow, Essex, England: Longman; 1995.
Gong P. Remote sensing and
image analysis
Jensen J. Introductory
Digital Image Processing, A Remote Sensing Perspective. Upper Saddle River, New
Jersey: Prentice Hall; 1996.
Lillesand T. M. and R. W.
Kiefer. Remote sensing and image interpretation. New York, John Wiley &
Sons, 2000.
Public Health GIS News and
Information
International Journal of
Health Geographics: http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/start.asp
Health & Place: http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/3/0/5/1/9/index.htt