Essays about: "GIs in public health"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 35 essays containing the words GIs in public health.

  1. 16. Decision Support for Urban Regeneration - Using Multi Criteria Evaluation for Urban Green Space Development in Helsingborg

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Nina Sandberg; [2018]
    Keywords : Urban Development; Urbanization; Decision Support; Multi Criteria Evaluation; Public Green Space; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Urbanization and densification are two noticeable trends that imposes many challenges for urban planners. Fast growing cities comes with the need for incorporating publicly accessible green spaces to ensure public health and for creating an attractive city. READ MORE

  3. 17. Spatial-temporal GIS analysis in public health – a case study of polio disease

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Roman Spataru; [2018]
    Keywords : Geography; GIS; Polio; disease outbreak; WHO; spatial; temporal; public health; distribution; prevention; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this work was to use spatial-temporal analysis for the prevention and mitigation of disease spread. A prototype application was specifically designed to detect territories with a high incidence of cases and a second was used to validate the results. READ MORE

  4. 18. Bicycle hazards : Do intersections matter?

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Kulturgeografi

    Author : Niclas Form; [2018]
    Keywords : Bicycle hazards; intersections; accidents; accessibility; sustainable development;

    Abstract : The Swedish city of Umeå is one amongst other cities that has a focus on the increase in the bicycling usage. The municipality of Umeå aims to make public transport, bicycling and walking the most frequently used modes of transport in the city (Umeå kommun, 2017b). READ MORE

  5. 19. Effect of distance measures and feature representations on distance-based accessibility measures

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Jeremy Azzopardi; [2018]
    Keywords : geography; GIS; Bland-Altman; Euclidean distance; geographic accessibility; network distance; recreational area; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Distance-based accessibility measures are often built using vector representations of origin and destination features, and Euclidean or network-based distances. There are few comparisons of how the choice of feature representations and distance types affects results. Existing comparisons often use Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients. READ MORE

  6. 20. Spatial and temporal analysis of fecal indicator bacteria concentrations in beach water in San Diego, California

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Katarina Jemec Parker; [2017]
    Keywords : Geography; GIS; FIB; beach water; spatial; temporal; land use; California; Physical Geography; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : With millions of yearly beach visitors in southern California, beach water quality represents an important factor in public health and ocean dependent economy. Fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) in water is much easier to measure than disease causing organisms but correlation exists between the two. READ MORE