Geospatial Analysis of Environmental Health - Maantay, Juliana A.; McLafferty, Sara.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011)
Foreword -- Section I - General Considerations in Geospatial Analysis of Environmental Health -- 1.Environmental Health and Geospatial Analysis: An Overview -- 2. Using GeoVisualization and Geospatial Analysis to Explore Respiratory Disease and Environmental Health Justice in New York City -- 3. Outdoor Air Pollution and Health - A review of the Contributions of Geotechnologies to Exposure Assessment -- 4. The Use of Residential History in Environmental Health Studies -- 5. Proximity Analysis Methods for Exposure Assessment in Environmental Health Justice Research -- Section II - Impacts on Environmental Health (Topical Case Studies) -- 7. Geospatial analysis of West Nile virus (WNV) incidences in an urban environment: A Case Study in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area of Minnesota -- 8. The Health Impacts of Brownfields in Charlotte NC: A Spatial Approach -- 9. Regional Environmental Patterns of Diarrheal Disease in Bangladesh: A Spatial Analytical and Multilevel Approach -- 10. Developing a Supermarket Need Index for New York City -- 11. Asthma, Air Quality, and Environmental Justice in Louisville, Kentucky -- 12. The Impact of Changes in Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Laws on Proximity to Environmental Hazards: A Case Study of Connecticut -- 13.Global Geographies of Environmental Injustice and Health: A Case Study of Illegal Hazardous Waste Dumping in Cote d'Ivoire -- 14. Environmental and Health Inequalities of Women in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Lagos, Nigeria -- 15. Housing Quality and Racial Disparities in Low Birth Weight: A GIS Assessment in Flint, Michigan -- Section III - Geospatial Methods in Investigating Environmental Health -- 16. Participatory mapping as a component of operational malaria vector control in Tanzania -- 17. Revisiting Tobler's First Law of Geography: Spatial Regression Models for Assessing Environmental Justice and Health Risk Disparities -- 18. A Spatially Explicit Environmental Health Surveillance Framework for Tick-Borne Diseases -- 19. Using Distance Decay Techniques and Household-Level Data to Explore Regional Variation in Environmental Inequality -- 20. Merging Satellite Measurement with Ground-based Air Quality Monitoring Data to Assess Health Effects of Fine Particulate Matter Pollution -- 21. Poverty Determinants of Acute Respiratory Infections in the Mapuche Population of Ninth Region of Araucania, Chile (2000-2005).  A Bayesian Approach with Time-space Modelling -- 22. GIS and Atmospheric Diffusion Modeling for Assessment of Individual Exposure to Dioxins Emitted from a Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator -- 23. Synthesizing waterborne infection prevalence for comparative analysis of cluster detection methods -- 24. Spatiotemporal Analysis of PM2.5 Exposure in Taipei (Taiwan) by integrating PM10 and TSP observations -- Index.
Keywords: Environmental health; Geographical information systems; Remote sensing; Environmental Health; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.