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1. Introduction
2. Environmental epidemiology
3. Measuring exposure
4. What is GIS?
5. Types of geo-referenced data
6. Using GIS to define exposure
7. Area-based exposure
8. Using area-based exposure measures
9. Example-social disadvantage and heart diseas
10. Modeling area-based data
11. IHD rates by age and gender
12. Effects of social diadvantage
13. Some technical details
14. Sensitivity to moddling method
15. Some final remarks about area-based analysis
16. Distance-based exposure
17. Childhood cancer and petrochmical plants
18. Example-constructing an exposure surface
19. Closer look at the exposure surface
20. Other uses of GIS in environmental epidemiology
21. Example-lung cancer in proximity to military base
22. Raw data can be hard to interpret
23. Spatial smoothing
24. Example-geographical variation in allergic reponse
25. More on geoadditive modeling
26. Searching for clusters
27. Conclutions

Topics Covered

• Introduction to GIS and its role in environmental epidemiology
• Ways that GIS can be used to quantify environmental exposures
• Statistical methods for analyzing spatial data
• Examples where GIS has played a useful role

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Series:

• Gene-Environment Interactions

Categories:

• Genetics & Epigenetics
• Methods

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Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007
• Archived on October 17, 2015

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Louise Ryan has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.