Week 7 – February 26, 2020

This weeks lecture continued to discuss health geography, but probed deeper into the role of GIS in health geography.

The lecture revolved around 4 major GIS applications in the field of health geography:

  1. epidemiology – helping to visualize and predict trends
  2. environmental hazards – explores mitigation and causation
  3. modelling health services – display inequalities across space
  4. identifying health inequalities – often works in conjunction with modelling health serivces

Health geography applications often use different types of regression analysis and network analysis.