Geog 5190/6190 GIS and Environmental Health

Readings

Week 1

Richards TB, Croner CM, Rushton G, Brown CK, Fowler L, Geographic Information Systems and Public Health:
Mapping the Future, Public Health Reports 1999;114:359-373. [ link ]

Optional: [ Cromley EK, and McLafferty SL. GIS and Public Health. The Guilford Press, New York, 2002. Introduction and Chapter 1. p1-37. ]

or [ Melnick A, Introduction to Geographic Information Systems in Public Health, 2002, Maryland, Aspen Publishers, Inc. p1-8.

Melnick A, Introduction to Geographic Information Systems in Public Health, 2002, Maryland, Aspen Publishers, Inc. p45-64. ]

Rushton G, Elmes G, McMaster R, Considerations for Improving Geographic Information System Research in Public Health, URISA Journal 12:31-49. [ link ]

Week 4

Krieger N, Chen JT, Waterman PD, Soobader M, Subramanian SV, Carson R, Geocoding and Monitoring of US Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality and Cancer Incidence: Does the Choice of Area-based Measure and Geographic Level Matter? The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project, American Journal of Epidemiology, 2002, Sep 1;156(5):471-82. [ link ]

Week 5

Gopal K. Singh, Barry A. Miller, Benjamin F. Hankey, Eric J. Feuer, and Linda W. Pickle
Changing Area Socioeconomic Patterns in U.S. Cancer Mortality, 1950-1998: Part I-All Cancers Among Men
J Natl Cancer Inst 2002; 94: 904-915. [ link ]

Gopal K. Singh, Barry A. Miller, and Benjamin F. Hankey
Changing Area Socioeconomic Patterns in U.S. Cancer Mortality, 1950-1998: Part II-Lung and Colorectal Cancers
J Natl Cancer Inst 2002; 94: 916-925. [ link ]

University of Texas, Center for Health Policy Studies, Indices of Social Well-being, Web-GIS for mapping different indices: http://www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/admaps/web/wellbeingwebpage/wellbeing2.htm

Juan Ferrándiz, Juan J. Abellán, Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, Antonio López-Quílez, Pilar Sanmartín, Carlos Abellán, Miguel A. Martínez-Beneito, Inmaculada Melchor, Hermelinda Vanaclocha, Óscar Zurriaga, Ferrán Ballester, José M. Gil, Santiago Pérez-Hoyos, and Ricardo Ocaña

Spatial Analysis of the Relationship between Mortality from Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease and Drinking Water Hardness
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2004; 112 (9): 1037-1044. [ link ]

Week 7

Patz J. A.

Satellite remote sensing can improve chances of achieving sustainable health

Environmental Health Perspectives, 2005; 113 (2): A84-A85. [ link ]

Patz Jonathan A., Peter Daszak, Gary M. Tabor, A. Alonso Aguirre, Mary Pearl, Jon Epstein, Nathan D. Wolfe, A. Marm Kilpatrick, Johannes Foufopoulos, David Molyneux, David J. Bradley, and Members of the Working Group on Land Use Change and Disease Emergence

Unhealthy Landscapes: Policy Recommendations on Land Use Change and Infectious Disease Emergence

Environmental Health Perspectives, 2004; 112 (10): 1092-1098. [ link ]

Colwell R. R.

Global climate and infectious disease: the cholera paradigm

Science, 1996; 274 (5295): 2025-2031. [ link ]

Week 8

Cromley EK, and McLafferty SL. GIS and Public Health. The Guilford Press, New York, 2002.

Chapter 7 and 8

Schmidt C. W.

Terra Cognita: Use Earth Observing Systems To Understand Our World

Environmental Health Perspectives, 2005; 113 (2): A98-A104. [ link ]

Week 11

Peterson T., J. T. Bauer, and J. N. Mills

Ecologic and Geographic Distribution of Filovirus Disease

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004; 10(1): 40-47. [ link ]

Deplazes P., D. Hegglin, S. Gloor and T. Romig

Wilderness in the city: the urbanization of Echinococcus multilocularis

Trends in Parasitology, 2004; 20(2): 77-84. [ link ]

Week 12 

Melnick A, Introduction to Geographic Information Systems in Public Health, 2002, Maryland, Aspen Publishers, Inc. p154-178.

or [McCall, J. The New Kid on the Block: A look at how geographic information systems are changing the face of cancer research, in Geographic Information Systems and Health Applications, ed. Omar Khan, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA 2003, p81-96. [ link ] ]

Week 13

Elgethun, K., R. A. Fenske, M. G. Yost and G. J. Palcisko, 2003. Time-location analysis for exposure assessment studies of children using a novel global positioning system instrument. Environmental Health Perspectives, 111(1): 115-122. [ link ]

English, P., R. Neutra, R. Scalf, M. Sullivan, L. Waller and L. Zhu, 1999. Examining associations between childhood asthma and traffic flow using a geographic information system. Environmental Health Perspectives, 107(9): 761-767. [ link ]

Miranda, M. L., D. C. Dolinoy and M. A. Overstreet, 2002. Mapping for prevention: GIS models for directing childhood lead poisoning prevention programs. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(9): 947-953. [ link ]

Stellman, J. M., S. D. Stellman, T. Weber, C. Tomasallo, A. B. Stellman and R. Christian, 2003. A geographic information system for characterizing exposure to agent orange and other herbicides in Vietnam. Environmental Health Perspectives, 111(3): 321-328. [ link ]

Ward, M. H., J. R. Nuckols, S. J. Weigel, S. K. Maxwell, K. P. Cantor and R. S. Miller, 2000. Identifying populations potentially exposed to agricultural pesticides using remote sensing and a geographic information system. Environmental Health Perspectives, 108(1): 5-12. [ link ]

References on the format of medical images:

http://www.e-radiography.net/cr/dicom/dicomintro.htm

http://www.e-radiography.net/cr/pacs/pacs_intro.htm

http://www.rsna.org/practice/dicom/intro/

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