Public
Health & GIS
Center for Disease Control,
National Center for Health Statistics - GIS and Public Health
National Cancer Institute GIS
Tools for ArcMap from NCI
GIS
in Public Health (ATSDR)
The Geographic Information
System for the Long Island Breast Cancer Study
Environmental Health
Advanced Systems Laboratory - Colorado State University
GIS for Health & Human Services - ESRI
The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project Monograph
General GIS
Penn State
GIS Resource Documents
GIS.com
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) - establishes
standards for metadata
http://www.cnr.colostate.edu/class_info/nr502/mainpage/course_mainpage.html
- information about projections and coordinate systems
ET Spatial Techniques Source for "Easy
Calculate" - code that can be used with the ArcGIS Field Calculator and
ET GeoWizards a set of functions that can be used with ArcGIS.
Geographical
Analysis recently published a series of articles highlighting recent
developments in spatial analysis software for the social sciences (Volume
38, Issue 1, 2006, available electronically at Harvard). This issue was
inspired by a 2002
workshop sponsored by The Center for Spatially
Integrated Social Science (CSISS) at UC Santa Barbara.
Sources
of Spatial Data
Census
2000 TIGER files
Harvard Map Collection
US Geologic
Survey Digital Data
MassGIS
Pennsylvania Spatial
Data Access
Geography Network
The Boston Atlas
Health
& Demographic Data
Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research
MassSTATS
National Center for Health Statistics
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Mortality Atlases
National Cancer Institute
National Center for Health Statistics
Geocoding
Mapping Analytics - one of several companies that provide geocoding services
Spatial
Statistics Sites
GeoBUGS
software package- GeoBUGS has been developed by a team at the Department
of Epidemiology and Public Health of Imperial College at St Mary's Hospital,
London. It is an add-on to WinBUGS that fits spatial models and produces
a range of maps as output. Bayesian inference is used to spatially smooth
the standardized incidence/mortality ratios using Markov Chain Monte Carlo
(MCMC) methods. GeoBUGS implements models for data that are collected
within discrete regions (not at the individual level) and smoothing is
done based on Markov random field models for the neighborhood structure
of the regions relative to each other.
Fields software
package for R -implements thin plate spline fitting and kriging
Classical and Bayesian implementations of kriging- using the geoR
and geoS packages for R and S-plus, respectively
Head-Bang PC Software "Head-banging" is a weighted
two-dimensional median-based smoothing algorithm available from NCI.