Remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as the applied public health & environmental epidemiology
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 12
Abstract
The public health epidemiology is the study of horizontal and vertical structure of the disease infection state, and health r elated events and attempt to explain the environmental risk factors (biological, physical, and chemical agents); social settings an d factors affecting human contact with these agents, and socioeconomic an d environmental condition. GIS has been used to mapping the epidemiological information which includes the burden of disease epidemic transmission, spatial distribution and the determ inants of health related states or events in specified population with reference to space and time. Perhaps, remote sensing and GPS has been integrated under the GIS umbrella for disease surveillance, situation analyze and the spatial modelling of disease transmission. The first application of cartography was used in the public health epidemiology for mapping diarrhea disease in London, durin g 1854 by Jonson Snow, UK physician. However, the applied GIS and remote sensing have not only become essential tool in mapping the both vertical and horizontal epidemiological information, disease surveillance, health monitoring, surveying, sampling design, dis ease control programs, predicting the disease transmission, and most importantly, incorporated the ge0spatial epidemiological analysis of proximity, similarity, geometry, and cognitive of the disease incidence and the socioeconomic and the ecological variables. I t has also become significant decision making tool in heath monitoring, health care management and publ ic health epidemiology. The ERDAS Imagine image processing software and the ARC GIS, Map INFO, Geovariogram+, SPSS are used to mapping, spatial analysis and image processing of the both non - spatial and spatial data. The illustrations are used in the presen t study based on the data generated from the source of author’s research works and publications, which has relevant information on the public health epidemiologi cal aspects of vector borne disease transmission and GIS for epidemic control and management in India.
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Palaniyandi Masimalai
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