GIS and Epidemiology Looking at AIDS and Influenza

GIS in Healthcare  Long traditions for studying the spatial patterns of health and disease pre-dating GIS technologies.  How does the use of modern GIS tools give added value to the study of health research?  Databases and Increased numbers of Data  Visual representations  Surveillance and monitoring

GIS in Healthcare 2  Interaction between environmental quality and Human health  Environmental Epidemiology  Geographical Epidemiology  The role of GIS as a Decision Support System  Financial and Ethical issues  Often highly publicised disease or illness e.g. Leukaemia or Meningitis despite lower incidence  HIV & AIDS – “The War on AIDS” G.W.Bush  Confidentiality of surveillance

Software Tools  SPLANCS  INFO-MAP  LISP-STAT  ARC/INFO  Epi Info 2000

Epi Info 2000  Used across Africa for developing non- laboratory model system for AIDS  Replacement for Epi Info 6  Available at no cost  Questionnaires developed and customised with ease  Data can be analysed  Displayed as Tables, Graphs or Maps