New perspectives on the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in environmental health sciences

Kistemann, Thomas; Dangendorf, Friederike; Schweikart, Jürgen

doi:10.1078/1438-4639-00145

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“…The use of GIS, however, does by no means overcome the two major concerns of any empirical research: data availability and data quality (Kistemann et al, 2002). This issue should always be kept in mind by all GIS/RS users.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…"when" -is important in most environmental and epidemiological processes, it has also been suggested that GIS should be replaced by STIS, which is an abbreviation for space-time information systems (Kistemann et al, 2002;Hendrickx et al, 2004). There is currently a movement towards regarding GIS as a science (geographical information science) rather than a simple technology (Goodchild, 2000;Kistemann et al, 2002).…”

Section: Brief History Of Gis and Rsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…GIS is, however, not only a digital map representation but is indeed an information and analysing tool which permits the processing of space-related data. Certainly, maps themselves keep on playing a prominent role and are, of course, the most frequently used output of GIS (Kistemann et al, 2002). For spatial epidemiology, GIS has become an important tool for designing a study, territorial sampling, and the drawing of maps.…”

Section: Disease Mappingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ecological analysis is targeted on the description of relations existing between the geographic distribution of diseases and environmental risk factors and their analysis by means of statistical procedures (Kistemann et al, 2002). A wide number of papers have been published on the analysis of the relationship between disease indicators (e.g.…”

Section: Ecological Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

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New insights into the application of geographical information systems and remote sensing in veterinary parasitology

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IntroductionApplication of geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) in veterinary and human medical sciences, particularly in veterinary and human parasitology, is rapidly advancing. During the past 10-20 years the publication of original research articles and reviews in veterinary and human health with an emphasis on GIS and/or RS has followed an exponential trend (Hendrickx et al., 2004). In addition, recent GIS/RS symposia organized at national and international conferences, and several thematic issues on this topic published in the peer-reviewed international literature (e.g. special theme issues in Advances in Parasitology in 2000and Parassitologia in 2005) demonstrate the wide array of applications and benefits of these tools (Cringoli et al., 2005b). Furthermore, the raised interest about these new technologies is testified by the publication of thematic books pertaining GIS and RS, as well as international peer-reviewed journals, including the current launch of Geospatial Health.The establishment and maintenance of websites as a platform for sharing data, exchanging opinions, experiences and expertise on GIS and RS with an emphasis on animal and public health is also worth mentioning (e.g.http://www.gnosisgis.org; http:// www.gisvet.org).In this review, we first summarize general aspects of GIS and RS, and emphasize the most important applications of these tools in veterinary parasitology, including recent advances in territorial sampling. Disease mapping, spatial statistics, including Bayesian inference, ecological analyses and epidemiological surveillance are summarized in the next section and illustrated with a set of figures. Finally, a set of conclusions is put forward. Abstract. Over the past 10-15 years, significant advances have been made in the development and application of geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS). In veterinary sciences, particularly in veterinary parasitology, GIS and RS offer powerful means for disease mapping, ecological analysis and epidemiological surveillance and have become indispensable tools for processing, analysing and visualising spatial data. They can also significantly assist with the assessment of the distribution of health-relevant environmental factors via interpolation and modelling. In this review, we first summarize general aspects of GIS and RS, and emphasize the most important applications of these tools in veterinary parasitology, including recent advances in territorial sampling. Disease mapping, spatial statistics, including Bayesian inference, ecological analyses and epidemiological surveillance are summarized in the next section and illustrated with a set of figures. Finally, a set of conclusions is put forward.

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“…These access measures can also be linked with census or patient data to study the populations with access to certain services (Nallamothu et al, 2006;Schuurman et al, 2008). It is important to note that because the method of interpolation focuses on creating continuous surfaces from point data, it can also be used to model the concentration of environmental variables from a point source or the spread of an infectious agent over boundaries (Kistemann et al, 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%