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Geographic Information Systems in Public Health:
Proceedings of the Third National Conference

Editors:

Robert C. Williams, P.E., DEE
Assistant Surgeon General
Director, Division of Health Assessment & Consultation
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta GA

Max M. Howie, M.S.
Chief, Program Evaluation, Records & Information Services Branch
Division of Health Assessment & Consultation
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta GA

Carolyn V. Lee, M.D., M.P.H., M.A.
Chief, Spatial Analysis and Information Dissemination Section
Program Evaluation, Records & Information Services Branch
Division of Health Assessment & Consultation
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta GA

William D. Henriques, Ph.D., M.S.P.H.
GIS Coordinator, ATSDR
Spatial Analysis and Information Dissemination Section
Program Evaluation, Records & Information Services Branch
Division of Health Assessment & Consultation
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta GA

 

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Environmental Health Protection

Implementation and Operations

Disease Surveillance

Social and Demographic Analysis

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Environmental Health Protection

A Study on Environmental Equity in Albuquerque, New Mexico: Executive Summary

Amy Baker, Gloria Cruz

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Health Risk Analysis of the Rio De Janeiro Water Supply Using Geographical Information Systems

Christovam Barcellos, Kátia Coutinho Barbosa, Maria de Fátima Pina, Mônica MAF Magalhães, Júlio CMD Paola

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Health Data Mapping in Southeast Toronto: A Collaborative Project

D Buckeridge, L Purdon, the South East Toronto Urban Health Research Group

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Exposure Assessment for Trichloroethylene in Drinking Water Using a Geographic Information System

X Chen, CE Feigley, EM Frank, WA Cooper, Y Huang

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Environmental Exposure and the Reproductive Health of Hispanic Women in Miami-Dade County, Florida

Alice Clarke, Seemanthini Hariharan, Jennifer Fu

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Using GIS to Create Childhood Lead Poisoning Guidelines in Florida

Christopher M Duclos, Tammie M Johnson, Trina Thompson

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Potential Risk Indexing System (P-RISK Model) Utilizing GIS to Rank Geographic Areas, Industrial Sectors, Facilities, and Other Areas of Concern

Debra L Forman, Amy Amina C Wilkins, David West

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Strategies for GIS and Public Health

Michael F Goodchild

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GIS in a County Environmental Health Agency

Peter J Isaksen, RS, Margaret M Blanchet, REHS, Todd W Yerkes, RS, Carl Osaki, RS

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Disease Cluster Investigation and GIS: A New Paradigm?

Geoffrey M Jacquez, MS, PhD

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Perception and Reality: GIS in Environmental Justice through Pollution Prevention

Marion C Kinkade, Jr, MCRP (Cand)

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Using a Geographic Information System to Guide a Community-Based Smoke Detector Campaign

Garry Lapidus, PA-C, MPH (1),* Steve McGee, BS (2), Robert Zavoski, MD, MPH (1), Ellen Cromley, PhD (2), Leonard Banco, MD

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Kriging Analysis Applied to Ecological Risk Assessment of Harbor Sediments

Christopher J Leadon

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Automated Process for Accessing Vital Health Information at Census Tract Level

Hsiu-Hua Liao, Paul Laymon, Kirk Shull

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Geographic Information Analysis of Pediatric Lead Poisoning

Florence Lansana Margai, PhD

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A GIS Analysis of Industrial Pollution in Hartford, Illinois

Richard T Masse, MPH

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Exposure Assessment in Environmental Epidemiology: Application of GIS Technology

John R Nuckols, PhD, Mary H Ward, PhD

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The Use of GIS in Identifying Risk of Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Australia

Lisel A O’Dwyer, PhD

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Drinking Water Source Protection and GIS in Reno County, Kansas

Daniel L Partridge, RS and Michael Dean Mathews

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Geographic Database for Public Health in Portugal: Public Health National Charter

Ana Patuleia, Marco Painho

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Screening for Childhood Lead Exposure Using a Geographic Information System and Internet Technology

Stephen A Scott, Randy Knippel

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Refined Soil Texture Emission Factors for Estimating PM10

Samuel Soret, PhD, Randall G Mutters, PhD

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A Public Health Information System for Conducting Community Health Needs Assessment

Elio F Spinello, MPH, Ronald Fischbach, PhD

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Geographic Information Systems and Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in the Tropical Western Atlantic Region

John F Stinn, BA, Donald P de Sylva, PhD, Lora E Fleming, MD, PhD, MPH, Eileen Hack, BS

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Web-Based Access and Visualization of Hazardous Air Pollutants

Jürgen Symanzik, David Wong, Jingfang Wang, Daniel B Carr, Tracey J Woodruff, Daniel A Axelrad

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Geographic Analysis of Childhood Lead Exposure in New York State

Thomas O Talbot, MSPH, Steven P Forand, MA, Valerie B Haley, MS

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Integration of Particulate Air Modeling with a GIS: An Exposure Assessment of Emissions from Two Phosphate-Processing Plants

Gregory V Ulirsch, Debra L Gable, Virginia Lee

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Prenatal Health Behaviors and Birth Outcomes

Jane E Warga, Tracy Benzies-Styka, Matthew Stefanak, Kimberly Vaughn

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Implementation and Operations

Exploring the Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Health along the US-Mexico Border: An Online Interactive Application

Deborah L Balk, Meredith L Golden, Maria Iwaniec

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Using GIS as a Management Tool for Health Care Assessment and Planning

Audra Eason, U Sunday Tim

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Health Service Sites Access Analysis Using Internet GIS

Yongmei Lu

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GIS Analysis of Brain Cancer Incidence near National Priorities List Sites in New Jersey

Oleg I Muravov, MD, PhD, Wendy E Kaye, PhD, C Virginia Lee, MD, MPH, Paul A Calame, MS, Kevin S Liske, MA

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Remote Imaging Applied to Schistosomiasis Control: The Anning River Project

Edmund Y Seto, Don R Maszle, Robert C Spear, Peng Gong, Byron Wood

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A Conceptual Model of the Spread of Rabies That Integrates Computer Simulation and Geographic Information System

Lorinda L Sheeler-Gordon, Kenneth R Dixon

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A GIS Analysis of Motor Vehicle Injuries in Ventura County, California

Paul Van Zuyle

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Childhood Lead Poisoning: The Potential and Pitfalls of Applying GIS to the Development of Federal Environmental Justice Policy

Max Weintraub

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Disease Surveillance

Cancer Incidence in Southington, Connecticut, 1968–1991, in Relation to Emissions from Solvents Recovery Services of New England

Diane D Aye, MPH, PhD, Gary V Archambault, MS, Deborah Dumin

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Analyzing Motor Vehicle Injuries with the Connecticut Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System GIS

Ellen K Cromley, Mary Kapp, Brian R Pope

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Using a Proximity Filter to Improve Rabies Surveillance Data

Andrew Curtis

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A GIS-Based, Case-Control Analysis of Cancer Incidence and Land Use Patterns

Steve Dearwent

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Power Lines, Line Transects, and GIS

J Wanzer Drane, PE, PhD, Heidi L Weiss, PhD, Tim E Aldrich, MPH, PhD, Dana L Creanga, PhD, Gerald F Pyle, PhD

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Data Issues and Cartographic Techniques as Applied to the Use of GIS in Epidemiology: The Alberta Health Model

Erik A Ellehoj, Dr Fu-Lin Wang, Dr Stephan Gabos

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Spatial and Environmental Risk Factors for Diarrheal Disease in Matlab, Bangladesh

Michael Emch

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Design and Implementation of a Geographic Information System for the General Practice Sector in Victoria, Australia

Julie B Green, Francisco J Escobar, Elizabeth Waters, Ian P Williamson

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The Knox Method and Other Tests for Space-Time Interaction

Martin Kulldorff, Ulf Hjalmars

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Exploratory Data Analysis in a Study of Breast Cancer and the Environment

Steven J. Melly, Nancy I. Maxwell, Yvette T. Joyce, Julia G. Brody

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Temporal and Spatial Distributions of Cases of Verocytotoxigenic Escherichia Coli Infection in Southern Ontario

Pascal Michel, Jeff Wilson, Wayne Martin, Scott McEwen, Robert Clarke, Carlton Gyles

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Spatial Patterns of Malaria Case Distribution in Padre Cocha, Peru

Martha H Roper, O Jaime Chang, Adeline Chan, Claudio G Cava, Javier S Aramburu, Carlos Calampa, Carlos Carrillo, Alan J Magill, Allen W Hightower

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Evidence for Geographic Clustering of Reported Gonorrhea Cases: A Neighborhood-Level Analysis of Environmental Risk

Richard A Scribner, MD, MPH, Deborah A Cohen, MD, MPH, Thomas A Farley, MD, MPH

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Social and Demographic Analysis

The New Mexico Mammography Project: Using GIS to Determine Geographic Variation in Mammography Utilization

Andrew M Amir-Fazli, Patricia M Stauber, Meg Adams-Cameron, Charles R Key

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Population-Based Prevalence of Cocaine in Newborn Infants—Georgia, 1994

Mary D Brantley, Roger W Rochat, Cynthia D Ferre, M Louise Martin, L Omar Henderson, W Harry Hannon, Brian J Ziegler, Paul M Fernhoff, Lori M Mayer, Elizabeth A Franko, Virginia D Floyd, Eric J Sampson, David J Erickson

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Issues in Environmental Justice Research

Susan L Cutter

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Using GIS to Study the Health Impact of Air Emissions

Andrew L Dent, David A Fowler, Brian M Kaplan, Gregory M Zarus

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Assessing the Accuracy of Geocoding Using Address Data from Birth Certificates: New Jersey, 1989 to 1996

Mark C Fulcomer, Matthew M Bastardi, Haniya Raza, Michael Duffy, Ellen Dufficy, Marcia M Sass

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GIS Analysis of Firearm Morbidity and Mortality in Atlanta, Georgia

Dawna S Fuqua-Whitley, MA, Kidist K Bartolomeos, MPH, Arthur L Kellermann, MD, MPH

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A New GIS-Based Tool for the Assessment of Environmental Equity and Death Rates Near Superfund Sites in the Urban Counties of Washington State

Richard Hoskins PhD, MPH

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The Role of Geographic Information Systems in Population Health

Russell S Kirby, PhD, MS, FACE (1),* Seth L Foldy, MD

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GIS in Community Health Assessment and Improvement

Alan Melnick, MD, MPH, Nicholas Seigal, MCRP, Jono Hildner, MS, Tom Troxel, MS

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Characterizing the Environmental Features of a Region for a Community-Level Health Study of Breast Cancer

Steven J. Melly, Yvette T. Joyce, Julia G. Brody

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Using a Comprehensive Community Health Information System for Public Health Planning and Program Delivery

Cordell Neudorf, Nazeem Muhajarine

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GIS for Community Health Planning: A Guide for Software Developers

Thomas B Richards, MD, Charles M Croner, PhD, Carol K Brown, MS, Littleton Fowler, DDS

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Nutrition Risk of Older Persons Participating in Home-Delivered and Congregate Meal Programs in Relationship to Demographics and Community Resources

Alice A Spangler, PhD, RD, FADA, CFCS

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Plotting Rural Households Where Map Details Are Insufficient: The Use of GPS in the Keokuk County Rural Health Study

ER Svendsen, SJ Reynolds, C Zwerling, LF Burmeister, AM Stromquist, CD Taylor, JA Merchant

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An EPA Region 2 GIS Application for Identifying Environmental Justice Areas

Daisy SY Tang, MA, Linda Timander, MA

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Understanding the Role of Geospatial Information Technologies in Environmental and Public Health: Applications and Research Directions

U Sunday Tim

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Spatial Analysis of Premature Deaths among African-American Males in Fulton County (Atlanta), Georgia

Adewale Troutman, MD, MPH

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Regional Patterns of Alcohol-Specific Mortality in the United States

WF Wieczorek, CE Hanson

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Warren County Landfill: Still Provocative After All These Years

PS Wittie, B Nicholson

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