GIS Tutorial for Health (2 Rev ed)

"GIS Tutorial for Health, Second Edition" is an introduction to designing maps that will help students investigate patters of uninsured and poor populations, prepare spatial data to analyze environmental hazards, analyze youth pedestrian injuries, and much more.

Kurland and Gorr help students learn and maintain new software skills while encouraging analytical thought and problem solving.

Each chapter begins with a health issue or problem with a spatial component.

Step-by-step tutorials show students how to solve the problem using ArcGIS 9.2 software. 'Your turn' exercises are designed specifically to benefit health management students and practitioners, computer specialists in the health field, and health-care managers and researchers.