From rks1946+@pitt.edu Tue Feb 17 09:46:22 2004 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.10+UW03.09/8.12.10+UW03.09) with ESMTP id i1HHkLuL053094; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:46:21 -0800 Received: from mb2i1.ns.pitt.edu (mb2i1.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.185.162]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.10+UW03.09/8.12.10+UW03.09) with ESMTP id i1HHkHBj024094; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:46:19 -0800 Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) id <01L6PISZR4OG017UDG@mb2i1.ns.pitt.edu>; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:37:27 EST Received: from localhost ([136.142.37.168]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01L6PISZ47ME0021YR@mb2i1.ns.pitt.edu>; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:37:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:37:26 -0500 From: Ravi Sharma Subject: Re: book recommendation? In-reply-to: <9D7EF737FA4C6F4FBBFC52FC30B836900DFA6E0D@nihexchange7.nih.gov> To: waphgis@u.washington.edu Cc: "Pickle, Linda (NIH/NCI)" , WAPHGIS-owner@u.washington.edu Reply-to: Ravi Sharma Message-id: <8752495.1077021446@sharma.fdl.pitt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.3 (Win32) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <9D7EF737FA4C6F4FBBFC52FC30B836900DFA6E0D@nihexchange7.nih.gov> X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIIII, Probability=8%, Report='QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT 0, REFERENCES 0.000, IN_REP_TO 0' I have a very high regard for the Cromley & McLafferty: GIS and Public Health book. It has an exceptionally good chapters on spatial data and spatial databases for public health. The chapters on spatial clustering, environmental health, access to health, and location of health services, infectious disease and ecology of vector borne disease are lucid and illustrative of applications to public health. Both authors are of course well known contributors to the field. I have used this book as a supplementary textbook in my GIS & Spatial Data Analysis in Public course and the students had glowing reviews of this book. I haven't had a chance to evaluate the Melnick & Fleming book yet. Ravi --On Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:32 AM -0500 "Pickle, Linda (NIH/NCI)" wrote: > > Our Branch has a small but growing library of books on GIS and spatial > analytic methods appropriate for cancer research. We would like to buy > one of the recently published books on GIS & public health. Does anyone > have an opinion on either of the books below, especially the level of the > text and point of view (epidemiology, geography, statistics)? Cromley & > McLafferty: GIS and Public Health, publ in 2002 > Melnick & Fleming: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for > Public Health, publ 2002 any others? > > Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks....Linda > > > Linda Williams Pickle, Ph.D. > Senior Mathematical Statistician > National Cancer Institute > Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences > Surveillance Research Program > Statistical Research and Applications Branch > > Mailing address: 6116 Executive Blvd., Suite 504, Bethesda, MD 20892-8317 > (NOTE: for overnight delivery, use Rockville, MD 20852) > phone: 301-435-7739 > fax: 301-480-2046 > email: PICKLEL@MAIL.NIH.GOV Ravi K. Sharma, Ph.D Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh 228 Parran Hall 130 Desoto Street Pittsburgh, PA 15261 Phone: 412-624-3615 Fax: 412-624-5510 E-mail: rks1946@pitt.edu .