Geospatial Analysis of Environmental Health

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Environmental Health and Geospatial Analysis: An Overview....Pages 3-37
Using Geovisualization and Geospatial Analysis to Explore Respiratory Disease and Environmental Health Justice in New York City....Pages 39-66
Outdoor Air Pollution and Health – A Review of the Contributions of Geotechnologies to Exposure Assessment....Pages 67-91
The Use of Residential History in Environmental Health Studies....Pages 93-110
Proximity Analysis for Exposure Assessment in Environmental Health Justice Research....Pages 111-138
Their Data, Our Cause: An Exploration of the Form, Function, and Deployment of Mapping Technologies among Community Environmental Justice Organizations....Pages 139-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Geospatial Analysis of West Nile Virus (WNV) Incidences in a Heterogeneous Urban Environment: A Case Study in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area of Minnesota....Pages 153-169
The Health Impacts of Brownfields in Charlotte, NC: A Spatial Approach....Pages 171-189
Regional Environmental Patterns of Diarrheal Disease in Bangladesh: A Spatial Analytical and Multilevel Approach....Pages 191-204
Developing a Supermarket Need Index....Pages 205-221
Asthma, Air Quality and Environmental Justice in Louisville, Kentucky....Pages 223-242
The Impact of Changes in Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Laws on Proximity to Environmental Hazards: A Case Study of Connecticut....Pages 243-256
Global Geographies of Environmental Injustice and Health: A Case Study of Illegal Hazardous Waste Dumping in Côte d’Ivoire....Pages 257-281
Environment and Health Inequalities of Women in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Lagos, Nigeria....Pages 283-302
Housing Quality and Racial Disparities in Low Birth Weight: A GIS Assessment....Pages 303-318
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
Participatory Mapping as a Component of Operational Malaria Vector Control in Tanzania....Pages 321-336
Revisiting Tobler’s First Law of Geography: Spatial Regression Models for Assessing Environmental Justice and Health Risk Disparities....Pages 337-356
A Spatially Explicit Environmental Health Surveillance Framework for Tick-Borne Diseases....Pages 357-371
Using Distance Decay Techniques and Household-Level Data to Explore Regional Variation in Environmental Inequality....Pages 373-394
Merging Satellite Measurement with Ground-Based Air Quality Monitoring Data to Assess Health Effects of Fine Particulate Matter Pollution....Pages 395-409
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
Poverty Determinants of Acute Respiratory Infections in the Mapuche Population of Ninth Region of Araucanía, Chile (2000–2005): A Bayesian Approach with Time-Space Modeling....Pages 411-442
GIS and Atmospheric Diffusion Modeling for Assessment of Individual Exposure to Dioxins Emitted from a Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator....Pages 443-456
Synthesizing Waterborne Infection Prevalence for Comparative Analysis of Cluster Detection Methods....Pages 457-472
Spatiotemporal Analysis of PM 2.5 Exposure in Taipei (Taiwan) by Integrating PM 10 and TSP Observations....Pages 473-492
Back Matter....Pages 493-498