Abstract. Medical geography and medical cartography can be denoted as classical application domains for Geographical Information Systems (GISs). GISs can be applied to retrospective analysis (e.g., human population health analysis, medical infrastructure development and availability assessment, etc.), and to operative disaster detection and management (e.g., monitoring of epidemics development and infectious diseases spread). Nevertheless, GISs still not a daily-used instrument of medical administrations, especially on the city and municipality scales. In different regions of the world situation varies, however in general case GIS-based medical data accounting and management is the object of interest for researchers and national administrations operated on global and national scales. Our study is focused onto the investigation and design of the methodology and software prototype for GIS-based support of medical administration and planning on a city scale when accounting and controlling infectious diseases. The study area is the administrative territory of the St. Petersburg (Russia). The study is based upon the medical statistics data and data collection system of the St. Petersburg city. All the medical data used in the study are impersonalized accordingly to the Russian laws.

Abstract. In 2019–2020, we conducted a set of case studies devoted to the investigation and design of a methodology for GIS-based support of medical administration and planning on a city scale when accounting and controlling infectious disease. The studies were conducted for the administrative territory of St. Petersburg city (Russia), and were based upon the medical statistics data collected and accounted by St. Petersburg medical administration. The statistics included data on tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis infection. All the medical data used in the study are impersonalized. GIS-based MDMS prototype was developed upon the QGIS software.Moving forward in the previously formed study direction, now we are working on MDMS interface redesigning to facilitate its usability. Current activities are focussed on incorporation of the Web interface into previously developed MDMS prototype. The paper discusses development of the Web GIS interface prototype, and poses feature research and development aims. First feedback collected from medicals makes it possible to pose a Web-GIS-based MDMS as more flexible and easy to use, in comparison to the desktop-GIS-based.

Medical geography and medical cartography have a long history. These domains cover both the tasks of retrospective monitoring and analysis (e.g., human population health monitoring, medical infrastructure development and availability assessment, etc.), and operative identification and management of emergencies (e.g., monitoring of epidemics development and infectious diseases spread). The same problems can be attributed also as the classical issues of Geographical Information Systems (GISs) implementation into applied domains. At the same time, implementation of particular geospatial facilities and technologies when such monitoring is performed on a city or municipality scale has its own specific, and always turns out to be significantly dependent on the architecture and technology of the health management system in a given city (or municipality). Our research is devoted to the investigation of the possibilities for GIS-based support of medical administration and planning on a city scale and performed on the example of Saint Petersburg city (Russia). Basing on the medical data collection system developed and used by Saint Petersburg medical administration, we are working on the design of a GIS-based monitoring system prototype that can be used for infectious diseases monitoring, and can allow accumulation of georeferenced medical data, study of spatiotemporal dynamics of disease rate, and disease patterns identification. Currently we are identifying challenges and problems allocated at the system conceptualizing and design stage. Medical data integration into GIS database is discovered in the paper.

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Abstract. The paper we summarizes and discusses experience of medical statistics data processing and mapping, gained in 2019–2020 in the frames of study devoted to the tuberculosis infection mapping. Basing on this experience, we have formalised a set of research issues, which were elaborated and clarified at the previous stages but demand additional investigations.Additionally, the paper summarises results of design and prototyping of a Web mapping interface implemented as a part of developed medical Geographic Information System (GIS). Developed GIS is aimed onto mapping and analysis of tuberculosis infection data. The overall structure of elaborated GIS is covered also with respect to the detected research issues.