Place, Space, and Health: GIS and Epidemiology

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dc.contributor.authorKrieger, Nancy
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T14:59:13Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T14:59:13Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.description.abstractPlace. Area. Neighborhood. Latitude. Longitude. Distance. These geographic terms are increasingly finding their way into the epidemiologic literature, as advances in geographic information system (GIS) technology make it ever easier to connect spatially referenced physical and social phenomena to population patterns of health, disease, and well-being.1-3 Indeed, links between location and health have long captured the imagination of perceptive observers. Consider the Hippocratic treatise, “Airs, Waters, and Places,” written about 2,400 years ago, which roundly (and rather deterministically) declared: “You will find, as a general rule, that the constitutions and habits of a people follows the nature of the land where they live.”4, p. 168 Early 19th century research decisive to epidemiology’s development as a discipline5 likewise looked to geography to discern etiologic clues.
dc.description.urihttp://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2003/07000/Place,_Space,_and_Health__GIS_and_Epidemiology.2.aspx
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/graz-ktpt
dc.identifier.citationKrieger, Nancy (2003) Place, Space, and Health: GIS and Epidemiology. Epidemiology, 14 (4). pp. 384-385.
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 417
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22521
dc.subjectDisparities
dc.subjectPublic Health
dc.subjectChronic Illness & Diseases
dc.subjectplace
dc.subjectspace
dc.subjecthealth
dc.subjectGIS
dc.subjectgeographic information system
dc.subjectepidemiology
dc.titlePlace, Space, and Health: GIS and Epidemiology
dc.typeArticle

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