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Public Health
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 StoriesThese stories show how public health organizations are gaining benefits using GIS technology and spatial analysis.
Getting the Most Out of Your DataYour 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.
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