Brings together contributions from practitioners in disciplines including epidemiology, statistics, geography, demography, and pollution modeling, to describe methods and applications in the emerging field of spatial epidemiology. Section I introduces spatial epidemiological studies and summarizes data requirements and problems. Section II overviews the state of the art in statistical methodology, and Section III gives examples of disease mapping and cluster studies. Section IV reviews methods of exposure assessment for use in spatial epidemiological studies. The editors are affiliated with the Small Area Health Statistics Unit at the Imperial College School of Medicine, London. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This book gives an authoritative account of current practice and developments in the field of spatial epidemiology, concerned with geographical variationsin disease, with respect to environmental exposures at the small-area scale. The approach taken is wide-ranging,including, epidemiology, statistics, geography, demography and pollution modeling. This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing international debate on environment and health.
