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4083.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
Oral | |||
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| With the increasing reliance on electronic database and GIS information systems in public health, the need for innovative methods for collecting, structuring, mining and manipulating information is critical to the analysis and evaluation of data. This session focuses on methods and applications in database architecture, informatics, GIS and information systems for public health practice and research. The goal of this session is to familiarize the individual involved in public health practice and research with innovative methods for assembling, synthesizing and analyzing large databases. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the end of this session the participant should be able to: 1. Outline basic analytical methods for investigating place effects on health 2. Recognize the need for updating diagnosis vocabulary databases 3. Become familiar with using computer programs in diabetes disease management 4. Perform geographic prediction of infectious disease cases using clustering algorithms 5. Apply GIS methods to health prevention programs | |||
| Michael A. Stoto, PhD | |||
Investigating place effects on health: A spatial approach vs. a conventional contextual approach ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Basile Chaix, PhD, Juan Merlo, MD PhD Asso Prof, Pierre Chauvin, MD, PhD, DSc | |||
| Withdrawn -- Let's bring our diagnosis vocabulary up to date Vergil Slee, MD, Debora Slee, JD, H. Joachim Schmidt, JD | |||
| Withdrawn -- DiabData a new system to building service-oriented solutions for diabetes Andreea Pruna, Simion Pruna | |||
| Geographic prediction of human cases of West Nile Virus in New York State using dead crow clusters Glen D. Johnson | |||
| Applications of GIS to youth access to tobacco and meth lab issues in a context of interagency collaboration Desiree Goetze, MPH, Barbara Seitz de Martinez, PhD, MLS, CPP, Muralikrishna Tangirala, BAMS, MPH | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Statistics | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Epidemiology; Health Administration; Maternal and Child Health | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||