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SPACE Discipline Resources

Disciplines >> Public Health

Public Health

SPACE Sessions and Conference Workshops

Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, March 2009

Workshop Participant Contributions

Course Syllabi

Spatial Epidemiology -- Spatial Analysis of Disease Pattern and Process
Spatial Epidemiology

CSISS Classics

Florence Kelley: Slums of the Great Cities Survey Maps, 1893
Colin Loftin and Sally K. Ward: Application of Spatial Autocorrelation in Sociology
Melinda S. Meade: Medical Geography and Human Ecology, 1977
John Snow: The London Cholera Epidemic of 1854

Publications

Albert, D. et al. 2000. Spatial Analysis, GIS, and Remote Sensing Applications in the Health Sciences. Ann Arbor Press: Ann Arbor, MI
Cliff, Andrew D. and Peter Haggett, Atlas of Disease Distributions: Analytic Approaches to Epidemiological Data, Basil Blackwell Ltd. 1988.
Cromley, E.K. and McLafferty, S.L. 2002. GIS and Public Health. Guilford Press: New York, NY.
Elliot, P., Wakefield, J.C., Best, N.G. and Briggs, D.J. 2000. Spatial Epidemiology: methods and applications. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
Gatrell, A.C. and Löytönen, M. [Eds.]. 1998. GIS and Health. Taylor and Francis: London.
Kawachi, I. and Berkman, L. [Eds.]. 2003. Neighborhoods and Health. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
Khan, O.A. and Skinner, R. [Eds.]. 2003. Geographic Information Systems and Health Applications. Idea Group, Inc: Hershey, PA.
Melnick, A.L. 2002. Introduction to GIS in Public Health. Aspen Publishers: Gaithersburg, MD.