Public Health

Announcements California vector control district improves field operations with GIS. [PODCAST]

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Pandemic Influenza Planning New ESRI white paper addresses the role of GIS in supporting pandemic influenza planning and response [PDF].

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.

• Early Detection and Response to Infectious Disease [PDF]
• Health and Human Services Tracks Stockpile Shipments on the Web
• New CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network Includes Spatial Analyst Tools [PDF]
• Salt Lake City Improves Mosquito Control Program with GIS [PDF]

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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.

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