From ttalbot1@nycap.rr.com Tue Feb 17 19:09:29 2004 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.133]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.10+UW03.09/8.12.10+UW03.09) with ESMTP id i1I39TuL022626 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:09:29 -0800 Received: from ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.2.55]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.10+UW03.09/8.12.10+UW03.09) with ESMTP id i1I39R74004659 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:09:27 -0800 Received: from tom (alb-24-194-158-35.nycap.rr.com [24.194.158.35]) by ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1I39K0w017426 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:09:25 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas Talbot" To: Subject: RE: book recommendation? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 22:09:13 -0500 Message-ID: <000001c2d7c4$482bff40$239ec218@tom> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 In-Reply-To: <8752495.1077021446@sharma.fdl.pitt.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIIII, Probability=8%, Report='__TO_MALFORMED_2 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __OUTLOOK_MSGID_1 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __EVITE_CTYPE 0, __CTYPE_CHARSET_QUOTED 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __HAS_X_PRIORITY 0, __HAS_MSMAIL_PRI 0, __OUTLOOK_MUA 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __ANY_OUTLOOK_MUA 0, __HAS_OUTLOOK_IN_MAILER 0, __IN_REP_TO 0, __HAS_MIMEOLE 0, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, IN_REP_TO 0' There are lots of good books out there. I would second Ravi's opinion = about the Cromley & McLafferty book. We are teaching a 3 credit course = entitled GIS and Public at the School of Public at SUNY Albany and find the book = very well written and easy to understand with a lot of good examples. We are using it as the text book for our graduate level course. =20 The book is also reasonably priced. Without being heavy on the = statistics it illustrates general concepts very well.=20 Tom Talbot Chief, Geographic Research and Analysis Section NY State Department of Health=20 -----Original Message----- From: WAPHGIS-owner@u.washington.edu = [mailto:WAPHGIS-owner@u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ravi Sharma Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:37 PM To: waphgis@u.washington.edu Cc: Pickle, Linda (NIH/NCI); WAPHGIS-owner@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: book recommendation? I have a very high regard for the Cromley & McLafferty: GIS and Public=20 Health book. It has an exceptionally good chapters on spatial data and=20 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=20 illustrative of applications to public health. Both authors are of = course=20 well known contributors to the field. I have used this book as a=20 supplementary textbook in my GIS & Spatial Data Analysis in Public = course=20 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 .