Public Health

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Tutorial for Health The GIS Tutorial for Health workbook introduces you to GIS using health care policy and planning scenarios.

GIS plays an essential role in helping public health organizations understand population health and make decisions. With the powerful tools and solutions that GIS technology brings to the desktop, your organization can improve understanding of community health needs and design effective interventions.

GIS technology offers varied solutions including ones that improve field data collection and reporting and others that support disease surveillance and analysis with online mapping and spatial statistics. Maps, the visual product of GIS, improve your ability to communicate a health situation, such as environmental contamination, to decision makers.

Success Stories

These stories show how public health organizations are gaining benefits using GIS technology and spatial analysis.

• Spatial Analysis Gives Insight into Source of Legionnaires' Disease [PDF]
• Health and Human Services Tracks Stockpile Shipments on the Web
• Park Equity Mapping Supports Advocacy for Parks and Healthier Communities [PDF]

More case studies, demos, and books and white papers

Getting the Most Out of Your Data

Your public health data reveals more when combined with other information. With GIS, you can bring in other data and geospatially correlate it with data you provide.

Find out where you can get data from ESRI.