A review of geographic variation and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications in prescription drug use research

Health Based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their Applications

Medical researches as well as the study of the Earth's surface, better still, geography are interlinked with each other; their relationship dates from antiquity. The science of Geographic Information Systems and, by extension, Geomatics engineering belongs to a discipline which is constantly developing at a global level. This sector has many applications regarding medical / epidemiological rese...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Livestock Science: applications

Geographic Information Science ( GIS )

Figure 5: Data modeling from the real world to a database, and from there to digital cartographic models and analogue products for visualization.. Figure 20: Sample (a) region, (b) its binary array, (c) its maximal blocks, and (d) the corresponding quadtree (after SAMET 1990a). IX he first textbook on GIS was published in 1986. Today, we can find dozens of books dealing with GIS. Yet, it is dif...

Geographic information systems: their use in environmental epidemiologic research.

Advances in geographic information system (GIS) technology, developed by geographers, provide new opportunities for environmental epidemiologists to study associations between environmental exposures and the spatial distribution of disease. A GIS is a powerful computer mapping and analysis technology capable of integrating large quantities of geographic (spatial) data as well as linking geograp...

Small geographic area variations in prescription drug use.

BACKGROUND Despite the frequency of pediatric prescribing little is known about practice differences across small geographic regions and payer type (Medicaid and commercial). OBJECTIVE The goal of this research was to quantify variation in prescription drug use among northern New England children. METHODS Northern New England, all-payer administrative data (2007-2010) permitted study of pre...