Spatial Health Inequalities: Adapting GIS Tools and Data Analysis

Esra Ozdenerol

  • 出版商: CRC
  • 出版日期: 2016-08-23
  • 售價: $7,990
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$7,591
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 205
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 1498701507
  • ISBN-13: 9781498701501
  • 相關分類: 地理資訊系統 GisData Science
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商品描述

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.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

社區和生物物理、政治和文化環境在影響個人健康結果方面扮演著關鍵角色。資源(如診所、醫院、公共交通、新鮮食品市場和學校)的不平等空間分佈可能使某些社區整體上更容易受到不良健康影響的傷害,並且更不具彈性。這種令人沮喪的現實表明,問題實際上是“你是誰取決於你在哪裡”,而健康不平等既是人民的問題,也是地方的問題。這就是為什麼需要在空間環境中研究健康不平等,以加深我們對為什麼和如何一些地理區域的健康狀況較差的理解。本書介紹了空間背景如何塑造健康不平等。

《空間健康不平等:適應GIS工具和數據分析》展示了環境和公共衛生中六個最重要主題的空間健康不平等,包括食品不安全、出生健康結果、傳染病、兒童鉛中毒、慢性疾病和醫療保健訪問。這些是作者進行了廣泛研究的主題,並從全球的角度提供了詳細描述。每個章節確定相關數據和數據來源,討論適當技術的關鍵文獻,然後使用地圖和GIS技術展示實際數據。這是一本獨特的書籍,適合學生、地理學家、臨床醫生、健康和研究專業人士以及對應用GIS和空間分析研究健康不平等感興趣的社區成員閱讀。