Gis Mapping for Community Health and Development - A Toolkit for Policymakers and Practitioners

This book explores how maps generated through geographical information systems (GIS) can be used to integrate principles of health equity and environmental justice into community planning and decision-making.

List of contents

Preface.Section 1: Place. 1.Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Which Is the Right Map of All? 2.Looking Inside Versus Outside: Natural Breaks Map. 3.Quartiles, percentiles, standard deviation maps and more: Who is above the mean? Who is below? Section 2: Policy. 4.Maps as an outcome of measures. 5.How not to compare apples with oranges: approaches for area and point data. 6.What to Map: Choosing between Aggregated versus Disaggregated Data, Categories versus Quantitative. 7.Measurements: Are More the Merrier? Section 3: People. 8.Yardstick competition: Am I similar to my neighbors? 9.Do Birds with the Same Feather Flock Together? From Social Marketing to Using Maps for Geographically Targeted Health Intervention.

About the author

Priyanka Vyas, California State University East Bay, US
Juan Aguilera, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, US

Product details

• Authors: Juan Aguilera, Priyanka Vyas, Priyanka Aguilera Vyas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 09.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032854205
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3285420-5
• No. of pages: 194
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, The environment, Environmental factors, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Environmental medicine, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Civil engineering, surveying and building