GIS for Health Organizations [Paperback]

Laura Lang (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2000

Health care executives and managers will get a closer look at how to use geographic information systems (GIS) to improve patient care, better manage their facilities, and increase their market share with this book. GIS is already used to monitor the spread of disease, assign patients to the nearest facility, and display injuries on a map of the human body. This book uses a dozen case studies, ranging from federal institutions and state public health departments to private care providers, to explain how the program was implemented and to report the results. With GIS, health care workers will be able to access accurate information quickly and easily through an easy-to-understand visual medium.

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About the Author

Laura Lang is the author of "Managing Natural Resources with GIS" and "Transportation GIS," She lives in Ramona, California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: ESRI Press (May 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 187910265X
• ISBN-13: 978-1879102651
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 8.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,992,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A quick helpful overview/ESRI sales brochure, July 19, 2000

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This review is from: GIS for Health Organizations (Paperback)

GIS for Health Organizations gives a very nice overview of the uses of GIS in the health environment. But, it does also seem to present mostly projects that use products developed by ESRI (which makes sense since they also publish the book). So, this book begins to seem like an ESRI brochure that you had to pay for, especially since the demo software included does not use the examples from the book. Overall, it is a nice quick reference of current uses for GIS, for the numerous programs that ESRI has helped develop for health care operations, and to get a quick overview of one of the GIS software applications on the market. A look at the ESRI website may yield the same information though, so actually buying this title may not be for you.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An overview only, April 25, 2000

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This review is from: GIS for Health Organizations (Paperback)

Following the style of her previous "Managing Natural Resources with GIS", this book provides some vignettes on the use of GIS in health related fields. There is not a great deal of detail, although she provides some references for additional research. The book is well illustrated with full color images and the price is right.
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If you are looking for some details on how GIS is being applied, this may be a good book to read, but you can find many similar items on the ESRI web site (or the sites of any of the popular GIS software producers).