Gis Tutorial for Health,9781589481480

Gis Tutorial for Health

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ISBN13: 9781589481480
ISBN10: 1589481488
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-08-24
Publisher(s): Esri Pr
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Summary

A textbook for teaching GIS to healthcare professionals, this book imbeds learning GIS software in the context of carrying out cases for visualizing and analyzing health-related data. Students are shown a hands-on approach that simulates how a GIS project would be developed in the real world. Exercises included throughout set the student loose on real data with a tangible, clearly-defined end product as the goal. A companion CD includes additional exercises for each tutorial chapter and integrated cases that cut across chapters.

Author Biography

Kristen S. Kurland holds a joint faculty appointment at the H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon's School of Architecture. Her focus at includes GIS, computer aided design, 3D visualization, and Computer Aided Facilities Management. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Wilpen L. Gorr is a professor of public policy and management information systems at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University where he teaches GIS and information technology. He is the founder of the Heinz School's InfoLink program for inner city high school students, a summer program based on GIS and computer aided design. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiii
Introducing GIS and health applications
1(30)
What is GIS?
2(9)
Spatial data
2(2)
Digital map infrastructure
4(1)
Unique capabilities of GIS
5(6)
Introducing the ArcGIS user interface
11(20)
Launch ArcCatalog
11(4)
Review data source types
15(3)
Launch ArcMap
18(3)
View map layer attribute tables
21(1)
View map layer properties
22(3)
Use the map
25(5)
Exercise assignment 1-1 Benchmark health GIS Web sites
30(1)
Visualizing health data
31(42)
Manipulate map layers in a map document
33(9)
Launch ArcMap and open an existing map document
33(2)
Add a layer
35(1)
Change a layer's display order
36(2)
Rename a layer
38(1)
Change a boundary layer's fill color
38(1)
Change a layer's outline color
39(1)
Change a layer's outline width
40(2)
Zoom and pan health features on a map
42(3)
Zoom in
42(1)
Pan
43(1)
Zoom to full extent
44(1)
Create spatial bookmarks
45(1)
Identify cancer mortality rates and deaths by state
46(3)
Identify features
46(3)
Select map features
49(4)
Select multiple features
49(1)
Zoom to selected features
50(1)
Clear selected features
50(1)
Change selection color
51(1)
Change selectable layers
51(2)
Find map features
53(2)
Use an attribute table to select counties with the highest number of breast cancer deaths
55(6)
Open an attribute table
55(1)
Show the connection between layers and tables
56(1)
Move a field
57(1)
Sort a single field
57(1)
Select the top five counties
58(1)
Show only selected records
58(1)
Clear selected records
59(1)
Sort multiple fields
59(2)
Create a new layer of a subset of features
61(12)
Select the most populated cities
61(1)
Create a layer from selected features
61(1)
Create a new symbol for the new layer
62(1)
Label major cities in Texas
63(1)
Set label properties and features
63(1)
Remove labels
64(1)
Convert labels to annotations
64(1)
Move labels
65(1)
Save the project and exit ArcMap
66(2)
Exercise assignment 2-1 Lung cancer mortality maps
68(2)
Exercise assignment 2-2 State lung cancer mortality maps
70(3)
Designing maps for a health study
73(38)
Begin a new map document
76(1)
Create a choropleth map for the uninsured population in Texas
77(9)
Add a layer and change its name
77(1)
Select an attribute to display uninsured population
78(2)
Create custom classifications
80(1)
Manually change classification values for percentage uninsured
81(1)
Change labels
81(3)
Build a custom-color ramp
84(1)
Save the Texas health-study map
85(1)
Create a point map for percentage of unemployed in Texas
86(4)
Symbolize unemployment data as graduated points
86(1)
Modify point classifications
87(1)
Make a scatter plot comparing uninsured and unemployed populations
88(1)
Save the changes to your Texas health-study map
89(1)
Work with layer files
90(4)
Create a layer file
90(1)
Create a group layer and add saved layers
91(2)
Save the new Texas health-study map
93(1)
Print layouts for a health-care study
94(2)
Choose a pre-built layout template
94(1)
Add layers to the map layout
95(1)
Create custom map layouts for multiple maps
96(8)
Build a custom layout grid
96(1)
Add layers and create multiple data frames
97(1)
Classify data
98(1)
Rename data frames
99(1)
Add map titles and text
99(2)
Add a legend
101(1)
Unify map scales
102(1)
Save the Texas health-study map
103(1)
Export maps
104(7)
Export a map to an image file
104(1)
Copy and paste map images
105(2)
Exercise assignment 3-1 Map comparing uninsured populations in California counties
107(1)
Exercise assignment 3-2 Map showing detailed Texas county demographics
108(3)
Projecting and using spatial data
111(28)
Explore map projections for world AIDS study
115(3)
Open an existing map
115(1)
Change Data Frame 1's projection to Mercator
116(2)
Symbolize area maps using size-graduated point markers
118(5)
Start a new map document
118(1)
Symbolize layers
119(2)
Create a prevalence map using point markers
121(2)
Explore map projections for U.S. lung cancer study
123(1)
Prepare GIS data for a local health study
124(15)
Add an ArcView shapefile
124(2)
Set scale ranges
126(2)
Add a CAD file
128(1)
Import an ArcInfo interchange file and add an ArcInfo coverage
129(1)
Export the coverage to a shapefile
130(1)
Add an event file
130(1)
Change the data frame projection to UTM
131(1)
Add an aerial photo to the map
132(1)
Improve labeling at the neighborhood level
133(1)
Set parks as semitransparent
134(2)
Exercise assignment 4-1 Map showing world infant mortality rates and life expectancy
136(1)
Exercise assignment 4-2 Map comparing walkable neighborhoods
137(2)
Preparing spatial data to study environmental hazards
139(30)
Download spatial and attribute data from the U.S. Census Bureau
142(12)
Lower Internet Explorer's security setting for downloading
142(1)
Download a TIGER/Line shapefile for census tracts
143(2)
Clean the census tract attribute data
145(4)
Download an SF3 housing variable
149(2)
Download census tract housing data from SF3
151(1)
Clean census tract SF3 data in Excel
152(2)
Download a shapefile from the ESRI Census TIGER/Line data Web site
154(2)
Download spatial data
154(2)
Build a map layer for elevated blood levels of lead in children
156(4)
Extract Allegheny County Tracts from Pennsylvania Tracts
156(2)
Create a text data type version of the Tract ID
158(2)
Join housing and elevated blood cases tables to census tract map
160(2)
Permanently join tables
161(1)
Create a new personal geodatabase
162(1)
Import a shapefile into the geodatabase
162(1)
Build a lead-study comparison map
163(6)
Add map layers and project the data frame
163(1)
Symbolize map layers
163(3)
Exercise assignment 5-1 Map housing values compared to elevated blood levels of lead
166(1)
Exercise assignment 5-2 Map housing complaints compared to elevated blood levels of lead
167(2)
Geocoding tabular data
169(34)
Geocode patients to ZIP Code centroids
172(6)
Begin a new health-care map project
172(1)
Add a ZIP Code layer
172(1)
Add patient database and open its attribute table
172(1)
Build address locator for ZIP Codes
173(2)
Add address locator in ArcMap
175(1)
Geocode patients using new address locator
175(3)
Spatially join patient and ZIP Code layers
178(3)
Spatially join points to polygons
178(3)
Create a choropleth map showing patient counts by ZIP Codes
181(2)
Geocode hospital addresses to streets for competitive analysis
183(20)
Begin a new health-care map
183(1)
Add streets layer
183(1)
Add hospital database
184(1)
Build an address locator for streets
185(1)
Geocode hospitals using new address locator
186(2)
Interactively rematch an address
188(2)
Interactively rematch more addresses
190(2)
Use street TIGER/Line maps to find addresses
192(3)
Rematch addresses
195(2)
Create a final comparison map
197(2)
Exercise assignment 6-1 Map mammography clinics by ZIP Code compared to females ages 40--64
199(2)
Exercise assignment 6-2 Map mammography clinics in a county by street address
201(2)
Analyzing youth pedestrian injuries
203(38)
Prepare study region
208(16)
Extract Pittsburgh.shp
208(1)
Clip water polygons
209(2)
Edit the rivers features
211(3)
Extract streets and tracts for Pittsburgh
214(2)
Join tracts and the census data table
216(1)
Append injury shapefiles
217(1)
Clean up your map and rename a shapefile
218(1)
Set the projection for the data and map layers
218(2)
Add City Planning (PAGIS) map layers
220(1)
Dissolve tracts to build the neighborhoods map layer
221(3)
Investigate the correlation of poverty and injuries
224(10)
Intersect map layers
224(2)
Aggregate records
226(2)
Join tables
228(2)
Symbolize map layers
230(1)
Count injuries by top and bottom 40 percent quantiles
231(3)
Investigate injuries near parks
234(7)
Build multiple-ring buffers
234(1)
Analyze injuries and population using buffers
235(5)
Exercise assignment 7-1 Additional sensitivity analysis
240(1)
Exercise assignment 7-2 Map injuries near schools and convenience stores
241

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