GIS Tutorial for Health - Softcover

"GIS Tutorial for Health, Second Edition" is an introduction to designing maps that will help students investigate patters of uninsured and poor populations, prepare spatial data to analyze environmental hazards, analyze youth pedestrian injuries, and much more. Kurland and Gorr help students learn and maintain new software skills while encouraging analytical thought and problem solving. Each chapter begins with a health issue or problem with a spatial component. Step-by-step tutorials show students how to solve the problem using ArcGIS 9.2 software. 'Your turn' exercises are designed specifically to benefit health management students and practitioners, computer specialists in the health field, and health-care managers and researchers.

Kristen S. Kurland holds a joint faculty appointment at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz School of Public Policy and Management and Shool of Architecture, where she teaches GIS, CAD, 3D visualization, and computer aided facilities management (CAFM). Wilpen L. Gorr is a professor of public policy and management information systems at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches and researches GIS applications.