Public Health Symposium.

The 13^th Annual Public Health Symposium will be on Monday, April 7,2008 in Piscataway, New Jersey at UMDNJ- West Lecture Hall Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.  Eddy A. Bresnitz, MD, MS will be the keynote speaker for this event. It will begin at 4:00 pm. Space is limited. You must pre-register.  Mach 29, 2008 is the registration deadline. Click here to register or call 732-235-2866 to get more information about the registration process.

GIS Services For Mapping and Sharing Disease Information

The web-based GIS provide an effective and dynamic way to represent disease information on maps. It also help us to understanding how any disease is spreading out in our commuties. However, there are many data such as data heterogeneities, integration and much more that are still major challenges in the health geographic fields. Click here to find out more about this article.

How Google Earth, Google Map and Ms Virutual Earth are being used

According to the International Journal of Health Geographics, the Web GIS in practice III is creating a simple interactive map of England’s Strategic Health Authorities using Google Maps API, Google Earth KML, and MSN Virtual Earth Map Control. Click here to read the electronic version of this article.

GIS in Public Health

Today, GIS have the potential to revolutionize Public Health Pratcice because  the majority of  data collected in Public Health have some geographic references such as street address.With GIS, Public Health Practitioners can map any health related issues such as mortality and birth rate at the local and state or even street levels. In addition, in Public Health they use GIS as tools for understanding and displaying disease or disease risks related to environmental exposures and social demographic data(lloyd248).

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Health GIS Conference

 The 2008 Health GIS Conference will be in September 28–October 1, 2008, in Washington, D.C. Health and Human Services professionals will come together to share and discuss successful approaches to using geography to improve research, management, policy decisions, public health and hospital preparedness, and health care delivery. click here to get more information about this event.

GIS is addressing Health Disparities in Access to Health Care.

What is Health Disparity?

Health Disparity is a failure of the healhcare system to provide equal, high quality health care to all individuals, regardless of ethnicity, race and other factors. Health Disparity should be viewed as a chain of events signified by a difference health status for racial and ethnic minority patients, access to health care, treatment, outcomes, the patient-physician relationship; the healthcare delivery system; language problems; understanding of cultural and folk illnesses; patient beliefs; provider biases and environment (Wikipedia). Whenever we talk about disparity we automatically see those two terms came up inequality and inequity. 

New Jersey is one of the most diverse states in United State within a majority of the population; of which are mostly minorities are affected by health disparities. Minorities in New Jersey (NJ) are at a greater risk compared to whites for premature death and preventable disease. New Jersey was one of the first states to establish the Office of Minority Health in 1992. Nowadays, Geography information System (GIS) helps us to locate and to have a better understanding about language services NJ hospitals.

According Howard Waitzkin, a physician and medical sociologist, studied information given in medical care and found that social class and cultures differences, and language barriers were the most important factors in doctors-patients communications. However, with theuage  help of GIS people are able to find a hospital in their area that is accommodating to their cultures, that respects their customs and speaks their languages, or provides a translator, so that they receive the best healthcare experience possible.

Click here to find more about how GIS is actively addressing Health Disparities in access to Health Care.

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Evens Salomon

Health Map

The health map is a global disease alert map that helps the world to be aware of any infectious disease outbreaks and any disparaties. It provides a lot of information about many infectious diseases outbreaks, influenza, vaccines, health outcomes and their severities as well. In addition, the health map helps the world to understand how many infectious diseases impact people health,the environment and the economies . It also provides useful information about many epidemiological studies that have being done in the past by many organizations such as CDC and WHO about infectious diseases and on how to response to any expected and unexpected outbreaks. This map is a way that many countries used to share and to gain information about any incoming infectious disease outbreaks, vaccines and any health disparities in other to keep the world safe and healthy place to leave (healthmap.org).

 For more information about Health Map please visit this following website http://www.healthmap.org

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