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EPI 621 (GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND PUBLIC HEALTH) – Spring 2013

Co-instructors: Frank Boscoe ([email protected]) , Tom Talbot ([email protected])

SYLLABUS

For 1/24:

Koch T, Denike K. Crediting his critics’ concerns: remaking John Snow’s map of Broad Street cholera, 1854. Social Science and

Medicine 2009; 69(8): 1246-1251.

For 1/29:

Gould P. “Skiing with Euler at Beaver Creek” in Becoming a Geographer, Syracuse University Press, 2000. pp. 176-184.

For 1/31:

Kamadjeu R. Tracking the polio virus down the Congo River: a case study on the use of Google Earth in public health planning and mapping.

Int J Health Geographics 2009: 8:4.

For 2/5:

Mills JW et al. The clearinghouse concept: geospatial data centralization and dissemination in a disaster. Disasters 32(3): 467-479.

For 2/7:

Lefer TB et al. Using Google Earth as an Innovative Tool for Community Mapping. Public Health Reports 2008; 123: 474-480.

For 2/12:

Iowa Cancer Maps. (Look over the entire site, including the Guide)

Harrower M, Brewer CA. ColorBrewer.org: An Online Tool for Selecting Colour Schemes for Maps. The Cartographic Journal 2003;

40(1) 27-37.

For 2/14:

Field K, Demaj D. Reasserting design relevance in cartography: some concepts. The Cartographic Journal 2012; 49(1): 70-76.

For 2/19:

Cromley and McLafferty, chapters 6 and 11

For 2/21:

Demaj D, Field K. Reasserting design relevance in cartography: some examples. The Cartographic Journal 2012; 49(1): 77-93.

(note this was previously posted under 2/14)

For 2/26:

Talbot TO et al. Evaluation of spatial filters to create smoothed maps of health data. Statistics in Medicine 2000; 19: 2451-2467.

For 2/28:

Forand SP et al. Data quality and the spatial analysis of disease rates: congenital malformations in New York. Health and Place 2002; 8: 191-199.

For 3/5 and 3/7:

Chapters 7 and 8 in Cromey and McLafferty only

For 3/12:

Fu LY et al. Spatial accessibility to providers and vaccination compliance among children with Medicaid. Pediatrics 2009; 124: 1574-1586.

For 3/26:

Baibergenova A. Low Birth Weight and Residential Proximity to PCB-Contaminated Waste Sites. Environmental Health Perspectives 2003; 111: 1352-1357.

For 3/28:

Flanagan BE et al. A Social Vulnerability Index for Disaster Management. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management 2011; 8: 3. (GIS Day speaker)

For 4/2:

Cayo MR, Talbot TO. Positional error in automated geocoding of residential addresses. International Journal of Health Geographics2003; 2: 10.

For 4/4:

Toutant et al. An open source web application for the surveillance and prevention of the impacts on public health of extreme meteorological events: the SUPREME system.

International Journal of Health Geographics 2011, 10:39. (GIS Day speaker)

For 4/9:

Johnson GD, Lu X. Neighborhood-level built environment and social characteristics associated with serious childhood motor vehicle occupant injuries. Health and Place 2011; 17: 902-910. (guest lecturer)

For 4/11:

Moise IK et al. Geographic assessment of unattended swimming pools in post-Katrina New Orleans, 2006-2008. Annals of the Association of American Geographers; in press.

For 4/16:

Cinnamon J, Schuurman N. Confronting the data-divide in a time of spatial turns and volunteered geographic information. GeoJournal; in press (awaiting Interlibrary Loan for link).

For 4/18:

Kulldorff M et al. A space–time permutation scan statistic for disease outbreak detection. PLoS Medicine 2005; 2: e59. (GIS Day speaker)

For 4/23-5/7:

No additional readings - focus on your final projects.

LECTURE NOTES

History of Disease Mapping, 1/24

GIS concepts, 1/29

Sources of data, 2/5 (part 1, part 2)

Cartographic design, 2/12

GIS and Environmental Health, 2/19

Clustering, 2/26

Infectious and vector-borne disease, 3/5