Sect. I Health Disparities & Community Health Issues -- Ch. I Race, Class and Place: Directions for the Future of Public Health / Gregory Pappas, Mohammed Akhter 1 Ch. II Understanding Health Disparities Through Geographic Information Systems / Samuel Soret, Karl J. McCleary, Patrick A. Rivers, Susanne B. Montgomery, Seth A. Wiafe -- Ch. III Using a GIS and the American Community Survey to Address Community Health Problems / Jane L. McCall, Amy K. Pasini, Richard B. Wait -- Ch. IV The Application of Spatial Analysis to the Public Health Understanding of Alcohol and Alcohol-Related Problems / Robert Lipton, D. M. Gorman, William F. Wieczorek, Paul Gruenewald -- Sect. II GIS & Cancer Ch. V The New Kid on the Block: A Look at How Geographic Information Systems are Changing the Face of Cancer Research / Jane L. McCall -- Ch. VI Community Breast Cancer Mapping in Huntington, LongIsland / Scott Carlin -- Ch. VII Application of GIS-Based Statistical Method to Assess Spatio-Temporal Changes in Breast Cancer Clustering in the Northeastern United States / Daikwon Han, Peter A. Rogerson -- Ch. VIII Geographical Analysis of Disease in Small Areas Using Hierarchical Bayesian Models: Mapping Men's Lung Cancer Mortality in Galicia, Spain / C. L. Vidal-Rodeiro, M. I. Santiago-Perez, E. Vazquez-Fernandez, M. E. Lopez-Vizcaino, X. Hervada-Vidal -- Sect. III Infectious Disease & International Health -- Ch. IX Using Hierarchical Nearest Neighbor Analysis and Animation to Investigate the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Raccoon Rabies in West Virginia / Andrew Curtis, Michael Leitner, Cathleen Hanlon -- Ch. X Spatial Cluster Analysis for Etiological Research and Identification of Socio-Environmental Risk Factors / Michael Emch, Mohammad Ali -- Ch. XI The Use of GIS and Remote Sensing in Schistosomiasis Control in China / Edmund Y. W. Seto, Bing Xu, Weiping Wu, George Davis, Dongchuan Qiu, Xueguang Gu, Peng Gong, Robert C. Spear 188 Ch. XII Bacterial Source Tracking of Nonpoint Source Pollution Using GIS and DNA Fingerprinting Technologies / M. E. Folkoff, E. A. Venso, D. W. Harris, M. F. Frana, M. S. Scott -- Ch. XIII Spatial Modeling of Risk Factors for Gender-Specific Child Mortality in a Rural Area of Bangladesh / Mohammad Ali, Christine Ashley, M. Zahirul Hag, Peter Kim Streatfield -- Sect. IV Hospitals & Healthcare Ch. XIV Using GIS to Unveil Distance Effects on Hospitalizations in Victoria / Ge Lin -- Ch. XV Spatial Accessibility to Primary Care and Physician Shortage Area Designation: A Case Study in Illinois with GIS Approaches / Wei Luo, Fahui Wang 260 Ch. XVI Using GIS with Publicly Available Data for Hospital Market Share Analysis / Evan R. Wolarsky -- Ch. XVII Mapping Accessibility to General Practitioners / Lars Brabyn, Paul Gower.

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