Geospatial Analysis of Public Health

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to Geoinformatics in Public Health

   • Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pravat Kumar Shit

   Pages 1-27

3. Spatial Database for Public Health and Cartographic Visualization

   • Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pravat Kumar Shit

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4. Basic of GIS and Spatio-Temporal Assessment of Health Events

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   Pages 59-98

5. Spatial Statistics and Public Health Events

   • Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pravat Kumar Shit

   Pages 99-138

6. Exploring Ecology and Associated Disease Pattern

   • Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pravat Kumar Shit

   Pages 139-198

7. Disease Risk Assessment and GIS Technology

   • Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pravat Kumar Shit

   Pages 199-218

8. Spatial Technology in Health-Care Planning and Policy

   • Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pravat Kumar Shit

   Pages 219-226

9. Back Matter

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This book is specifically designed to serve the community of postgraduates and researchers in the fields of epidemiology, health GIS, medical geography, and health management. It starts with the basic concepts and role of remote sensing, GIS in Kala-azar diseases. The book gives an exhaustive coverage of Satellite data, GPS, GIS, spatial and attribute data modeling, and geospatial analysis of Kala-azar diseases. It also presents the modern trends of remote sensing and GIS in health risk assessment with an illustrated discussion on its numerous applications.

• Health GIS
• Spatial Modeling in Public Health
• Remote Sensing data
• Spatial Pattern of Kala-azar disease
• Spatial technology in health-care planning and policy
• medical geography

• Department of Science and Technology, Bihar Remote Sensing Application Centre, Patna, India

  Gouri Sankar Bhunia

• Department of Geography, Raja Narendra Lal Khan Women’s College, Midnapore, India

  Pravat Kumar Shit

Gouri Sankar Bhunia has received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Calcutta, India in 2015. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on environmental control measures of infectious disease (Visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar) using Geospatial technology. His research interests include Kala-azar disease transmission modeling, data mining, and information retrieval using Geospatial technology. Dr. Bhunia is an associate editor and on the editorial boards of three international journal in Health GIS and Geosciences. He works as a ‘Resource Scientist’ in Bihar Remote Sensing Application Centre, Patna (Bihar, India). He is recipient of the Senior Research Fellow (SRF) from Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR, India) and contributed to multiple entomological studies and research programs on Kala-azar disease transmission modelling and development of Customized GIS software for Kala-azar “risk” and “non-risk” area. Dr. Bhunia has published 40 articles in total including 20 articles in journals indexed in Scopus (h-index: 7).




Pravat Kumar Shit has received his Ph.D. degree in 2013 at Vidyasagar University in India. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College, Gope Palace, Midnapore, West Bengal, India. He worked on applied geomorphology, environmental modeling, and published more than 35 international and national research articles in various journals. Dr. Shit research focuses on soil erosion spatial modeling, badland geomorphology, gully morphology and natural resources mapping and modeling. His research work has been funded by the University Grants Commission (UGC), India. Dr. Shit is an associate editor and on the editorial boards of three international journals of geography and environment earth science.

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