From wskinner@fast.net Wed Aug 18 06:46:42 1999 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id GAA08532 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 06:46:42 -0700 Received: from jennyjump.state.nj.us (jennyjump.state.nj.us [199.20.64.40]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.06) with ESMTP id GAA05303 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 06:46:41 -0700 Received: from ntnotes.doh.state.nj.us (ntnotes.doh.state.nj.us [205.148.40.3]) by jennyjump.state.nj.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA20502; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:45:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fast.net ([10.17.1.96]) by ntnotes.doh.state.nj.us (Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.3 (733.2 10-16-1998)) with SMTP id 852567D1.004BA939; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:46:25 -0400 Message-ID: <37BAB8F0.E350ECE4@fast.net> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:45:20 -0400 From: Ric Skinner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: waphgis@u.washington.edu CC: OMAR KHAN Subject: Re: National health surveillance & GIS References: <199908181335.IAA27299@electra.cc.umanitoba.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robert, I would like to direct you to the website for the International Health Geographics Conference (http://www.jhsph.edu/.ihgc). There you will find abstracts from the First IHGC (Oct. '99) as well as information about the Second IHGC (March '00). Also take a look at Marjorie Rosewell's website (http://cgi.umbc.edu/~chpdm/healthgeo/) with many good links. "Robert C. James" wrote: > I was asked a few days ago what the were two or three leading > international examples of integration of GIS into national > health surveillance? (I think that sub-national, but large population > entities such as provinces and states would also qualify.) > > Does anyone care to nominate a particular example or two? > > I should admit my bias. My concern is that at a national/sub- > national level, a lot of effort and resources goes into the > production of simple large-scale choropleth maps, etc.. and that the > really tough stuff - careful geopositioning, geostatistical analysis, > understanding the nature of measurement error, etc are yet to be well > integrated into these sorts of surveillance projects. Am I being > unfair? > > I am also trying to draw a distinction here between national > surveillance initiatives and disease-specific, or research-oriented, > surveillance that uses GIS. > > So, any nominees? Any comments? > > Rob James 204.231.0506 (Voice) 204.231.8449 (Fax) > Dept. of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba > -------------------- -- Ric Skinner Research Scientist/GIS Coordinator NJ Dept. of Health & Senior Services Cancer Epidemiology Services 3635 Quakerbridge Rd. P.O. Box 369 Trenton, NJ 08625-0369 Phone: 609-588-3500 FAX: 609-588-3638 wskinner@fast.net and Co-Chair 2nd International Health Geographics Conference 17 - 19 March 2000 Washington, D.C.(area) Website: www.jhsph.edu/ihgc .