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Readings - Spring 2007
Readings - Spring 2007
R eadings will usually be assigned each Tuesday for the following
Tuesday. For each reading, one student will provide a 3-5 minute overview
summarizing the main points and general nature of the reading. Students can
expect to perform this task 3-4 times during the semester.
The readings listed below are to be discussed on the day listed. Some of
these readings have a link to a file. Those that do not are available in room
2434 VMBSB.
The discussion of readings is an essential part of this course and all
students are expected to participate.
Week
Discussion Date
Readings to be discussed
1
Jan. 18
Reading 1:
Croner,C. M. 2003. Public
Health GIS and the Internet. Annual Review of Public health 24:
57-82
Reading 2:
Recent
advances in the use of geographical information systems with particular
relevance to veterinary parasitology. Extended version from: Hendrickx, G.,
J. Biesemans & R De Deken.
2004. The use of GIS in
Veterinary Parasitology. In:
GIS and Spatial Analysis in Veterinary Science, Durr, P.A. &
Gatrell, A.C. Ed. CABI Pub., Wallingford, UK: 145-176.
Reading 3:
Jacquez, Geoffrey, M.2000. Spatial
Analysis in Epidemiology: Nascent Science or a failure of GIS . Journal
of Geographical Systems 2:91-97
2
Jan 25
Intro to Remote Sensing in Health Research
Reading 1:
Thomson, M.C. et al.1997. Mapping
Malaria Risk in Africa: What can Satellite Data Contribute? Parasitology
Today 1,8:313-318
Reading 2:
Rogers, D.J. 2000. Satellites, Space, Time and the African
Trypanosomiases. Advances in Parasitology 47:129-171
Reading 3:
Kitron, U. et al. 2006.
Applications
of fine resolution satellite data to spatial analysis and control of
infectious diseases: Schistosomiasis in Kenya and Chagas disease in
Argentina. In Confalonieri UEC (ed) Interamerican Workshop on the
use
of Remote Sensing for the Control of Infectious Diseases.
3
Feb. 1
Reading 1:
Chapter 3: Measuring the Occurence of Disease I. Morbidity
and Chapter
4: Measuring the Occurence of Disease II. Mortality.
In Gordis, Leon. 2004.
Epidemiology.
4
Feb. 6
Reading 1:
Bell, B.S.,
R.E. Hoskins, L.W. Pickle & D. Wartenberg. 2006. Current practices
in spatial analysis of cancer data: mapping health statistics to inform
policymakers and the public . International Journal of Health
Geographics Nov 8;5:49.
Reading 2:
Reading 3:
AvRuskin, G.A. et al. 2004. Visualization and
exploratory analysis of epidemiologic data using a novel space time
information system. International Journal of Health Geographics 3:26.
Reading 4:
Cossman, R.E.,
J.S. Cossman, R. Jackson & A. Cosby.
2003. Mapping
high or low mortality places across time in the United States: a research
note on a health visualization and analysis project. Health & Place 9 (4):&nb
sp;
361-369.
5
Feb. 13
Reading 1:
Dungan et al. 2002. A
Balanced View of Scale in Spatial Statistical Analysis. Ecography
25:626-640
Reading 2:
Scott et al. 1997.
Spatial Accuracy of the EPA's
Environmental Hazards Databases and Their Use in Environmental Equity
Analyses.
Applied Geographic Studies 1,1:45-61
Reading 3:
Gregorio,
D.I., L.M. DeChello, H. Samociuk & M. Kulldorff. 2005. Lumping
or splitting: seeking the
preferred areal unit for health geography studies . International
J of Health Geographics 4(1): 6
Reading 4:
VanWey, L.K,
R.R. Rindfuss, M.P. Gutmann, B.Entwisle & D.L. Balk. 2005 Confidentiality and
spatially explicit data: Concerns and challenges . PNAS 102(43): 15337-1534 2
Supplemental Reading on Address Geocoding
The first two papers in the
section are available the July 2003 issue of Epidemiology.
Epidemiology July 2003, 14,4:408-412Epidemiology July 2003, 14,4:399-407. Improving
geocoding practices: evaluation of geocoding tools. J. of Medical
Systems 28,4:361-370.
6
Feb. 20
Reading 1:
Robinson, T.P. 2000.
Spatial Statistics and Geographical
Information Systems in Epidemiology and Public Health. Advances in
Parasitology 47:81-128
Reading 2:
Hungerford, L.L. 1991.
Use of Spatial Statistics to
Idenitfy and Test Significance in Geographic Disease Patterns. Preventive
Veterinary Medicine 11:237-242
Reading 3:
Kitron, U and Kazmierczak, J. 1997.
Analysis of
the Distribution of Lyme Disease in Wisconsin. American Journal of
Epidemiology 145:6 558-566
7
Feb 27
Reading 1:
Cromley and McLafferty. 2002. Chapter 5: Analyzing Spatial
Clustering of Health Events. GIS and Public Health :130-157
Reading 2:
Kulldorff, Martin. 1998.
Chapter 4: Statistical Methods
for Spatial Epidemiology: Tests for Randomness. GIS and Health Gatrell
and Loytonen (eds). London: 49-62
Reading 3:
Getis, Arthur and Ord, Keith J. 1996.
Local Spatial
Statistics: An Overview. In P. Longley and M. Batty (eds)
Spatial
Analysis: Modelling in a GIS environment 261-277
Reading 4:
Jacquez, G.M. et al. 1996.
The Analysis of Disease
Clusters, Part I: State of the Art. Infection Control and Hospital
Epidemiology 17,5:319-327
Supplementary Reading on epidemiology of clusters
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 1990. Guidlines for
Investigation Clusters of Health Events. 39:1-23
8
Mar. 6
Reading 1:
Clennon et al 2006.
Spatial and temporal variations in local transmission
of Schistosoma haematobium in Msambweni, Kenya.
Amer. J Trop Med Hyg
75: 1034-1041.
Reading 2:
Snow, John. 1949.
The Cholera Near Golden Square. Snow
on Cholera :415-418.
Reading 3:
Rothman, K.J. 1990.
A sobering start for the cluster
busters' conference Am J Epidemiol. 132:S6-13.
Reading 4:
Getis et al 2003. Characteristics
of the spatial pattern of the dengue vector, Aedes aegypti , in
Iquitos, Peru. Amer. J Trop Med Hyg 69,5: 494-505.
Reading 5:
Two papers by Jacquez and Greiling on Cancer in Long
Island. Scan the two papers, making sure that you understand the discussion
sections. Both may be accessed at the Terraseer
site.
9
Mar. 15
Reading 1:
Reading 2:
Hay, S.I. and J.J. Lennon. 1999. Deriving
meterological variables across Africa for the study and control of
vector-borne disease: a comparison of remote sensing and spatial
interpolation of climate. Tropical Medicine and International Health
4(1):58-71.
Reading 3:
Berke, O. 2004. Exploratory disease
mapping: kriging the spatial risk function from regional count data. Int
J of Health Geo August 2004.
10
WEEK 10 is Spring Break - Read a novel!
11
Landscape ecology and multivariate statistics
Reading 1:
Hess, G.R. et al. 2001. Spatial Aspects of Disease
Dynamics. Wildlife Diseases Hudson, New York:102-118
Reading 2:
Lavers, et al. 1993. Chapter 5: Equilibrium Landscapes and
their aftermath: Spatial Heterogeneity and the Role of New Technology. Landscape
Ecology and Geographic Information Systems :58-73
Reading 3:
Cullinan, Valerie et al. 1992. A Comparison of
Quantitative Methods for Examining Landscape Pattern and Scale. Landscape
Ecology 7,3:211-227
Reading 4:
Kitron et. al. 1996. Spatial Analysis of the distribution
of tsetse flies in the Lambwe Valley, Kenya, using Landsat TM satellite
imagery and GIS. Journal of Animal Ecology :65, 371-380
Reading 5:
Getis, Arthur and Daniel Griffith. 2002.
Comparative spatial filtering in regression analysis.
Geographical Analysis
34,2:130-140
12
Apr. 3 Spatial Models
Reading 1:
Ferguson, et al. 2001. The
Foot-and-Mouth Epidemic in Great Britain: Pattern of Spread and Impact of
Interventions. Science 292:1155-1160
Reading 2:
Smith DL et al 2002
Predicting the spatial dynamics of rabies epidemics on heterogeneous landscapes.
PNAS 19: 3668-72.
Reading 3:
Stockwell, D and D. Peters. 1999.
The
GARP modelling system: problems and solutions to automated spatial
prediction. Int. J.. Geographical Information Science. 13 (2): 143-158.
Reading 4:
Sitati, N.W. et al. 2003. Predicting
spatial aspects of human-elephant conflict. J. of Applied Ecology
40:667-677.
13
Apr. 10
Reading 1:McLafferty, Sara L. 2002. Mapping
Womens's Worlds: knowledge, power and the bounds of GIS. Gender, Place
and Culture . 9,3:263-269.
Reading 2:
Cromley and McLafferty. 2002. Chapter 11: GIS and
Community Health. GIS and Public Health :288-300:
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Apr. 17
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