This is a new paperback edition of the well received text Spatial Epidemiology: methods and applications. It is an easy to read, clear and concise exploration of the field of geographical variations in disease. Especially with respect to variations in environmental exposures at the small-area scale this book gives an authoritative account of current practice and developments. The recent and rapid expansion of the field looks set to continue in line with growing public, governmental and media concern about environmental and health issues, and the scientific need to understand and explain the effects of environmental pollutants on health.
Of interest to epidemiologists, public health practitioners, statisticians, geographers, environmental scientists and others concerned with understanding the geographical distribution of disease and the effects of environmental exposures on human health. It will be a valuable source for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in epidemiology, medical geography, biostatistics, environmental health and environmental science as well as a useful source of reference for health policy makers, health economists, regulators and others in the field of environmental health.
Edited by:
Paul Elliott ( Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine Imperial College School of Medicine),
Jon Wakefield (,
Small Area Health Statistics Unit,
Imperial College School of Medicine and Department of Statistics,
University of Washington,
Seattle),
Nicola Best (,
Small Area Health Statistics Unit,
Imperial College School of Medicine),
David Briggs (,
Small Area Health Statistics Unit,
Imperial College School of Medicine)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 242mm,
Width: 168mm,
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198515326
ISBN 10: 0198515324
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 23 August 2001
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
,
A / AS level
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Section 1 - Introduction: health and population data 1: Elliott, Wakefield, Best & Briggs: Spatial epidemiology: methods and applications 2: Staines & Järup: Health event data 3: Arnold, Diamond & Wakefield: The use of population data in spatial epidemiology 4: Carstairs: Socio-economic factors at area level and their relationship with health 5: Elliott & Wakefield: Bias and confounding in spatial epidemiology Section 2 - Statistical methods 6: Diggle: Overview of statistical methods for disease mapping and its relationship to cluster detection 7: Wakefield, Best & Waller: Bayesian approaches to disease mapping 8: Wakefield, Kelsall & Morris: Clustering, cluster detection and spatial variation in risk 9: Morris & Wakefield: Assessment of disease risk in relation to a pre-specified source 10: Cressie: Geostatistical methods for mapping environmental exposures 11: Richardson & Monfort: Ecological correlation studies Section 3 - Disease mapping and clustering 12: Walter: Disease mapping: a historical perspective 13: Pickle: Mapping mortality data in the United States 14: Atkinson & Molesworth: Geographical analysis of communicable disease data 15: Mollié: Bayesian mapping of Hodgkin's disease in France 16: Bernardinelli, Pascutto, Montmoli & Gilks: Investigating the genetic association between diabetes and malaria: an application of Bayesian ecological regression models with errors in covariates 17: Alexander & Boyle: Do cancers cluster? 18: Bithell & Vincent: Geographical variations in childhood leukaemia incidence Section 4 - Exposure data and the link to health 19: Briggs: Exposure assessment 20: Nieuwenhuijsen: Personal exposure monitoring in environmental epidemiology 21: Colvile & Briggs: Dispersion modelling 22: Best, Ickstadt, Wolpert & Briggs: Combining models of health and exposure data: the SAVIAH study 23: Järup: The role of geographical studies in risk assessment 24: Kanarek: Water quality and health 25: McMichael, Martens, Kovats & Lele: Climate change and human health: mapping and modelling potential impacts
Reviews for Spatial Epidemiology: Methods and Applications
'The book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the recent developments in spatial epidemiology.' International Journal of Epidemiology 'Spatial Epidemiology mixes practical application with theory...a very useful book for researchers at any level of experience with spatial analysis...The overall text is easy to read, clear concise, serving well as both a teaching text and reference book.' Dionne Law, Chapel Hill on amazon.com
