edited by Don de Savigny and Pandu Wijeyaratne

ORDER: IDRC 1995, 182 pp., ISBN 0-88936-766-3, $25

RÉSUMÉ FRANÇAIS

At the first health conference to address geographic information systems (GIS), researchers demonstrated that GIS data can be used to show a cause/effect relationship between environmental conditions and health. Case studies demonstrate how GIS can be used to monitor tropical diseases, water quality, environmental toxicology and overall rural health.

Contents

Foreword — Don de Savigny, Luc Loslier, and Jim Chauvin

Preface — Don de Savigny, Lori Jones-Arsenault, and Pandu Wijeyaratne

Context

1. The present state of GIS and future trends — Steven Reader
2. GIS from a health perspective — Luc Loslier
3. Spatial and temporal analysis of epidemiological data — Flavio Fonseca Nobre
   and Marilia Sa Carvalho

Case studies from the South

1. Towards a rural information system — David le Sueur, Sipho Ngxongo, Maria Stuttaford, Brian Sharp, Rajendra Maharaj, Carrin Martin, and Dawn Brown
2. A GIS approach to the determination of catchment populations around Local Health Facilities in Developing Countries — H.M. Oranga
3. GIS management tools for the control of tropical diseases: applications in Botswana, Senegal, and Morocco — Isabelle Nuttall, D.W. Rumisha, T.R.K. Pilatwe, H.I. Ali, S.S. Mokgweetsinyana, A.H. Sylla, and I. Talla
4. The use of low-cost remote sensing and GIS for identifying and monitoring the environmental factors associated with vector-borne disease transmission — S.J. Connor, M.C. Thompson, S. Flasse, and J.B. Williams
5. GIS for the study and control of malaria — Gustavo Bretas
6. Spatial analysis of malaria risk in an endemic region of Sri Lanka — D.M. Gunawardena, Lal Muthuwattac, S. Weerasingha, J. Rajakaruna, Wasantha Udaya Kumara, Tilak Senanayaka, P. Kumar Kotta, A.R. Wickremasinghe, Richard Carter, and Kamini N. Mendis
7. Diagnostic features of malaria transmission in Nadiad using remote sensing and GIS — M.S. Malhotra and Aruna Srivastava
8. Monitoring zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis with GIS — L. Mbarki, A. Ben Salah, S. Chlif, M.K. Chahed, A. Balma, N. Chemam, A. Garraoui, and R. Ben-Ismail
9. Use of RAISON for rural drinking water sources management — C.W. Wang

Appendices

1. Interests, problems, and needs of GIS users in health: results of a small survey — Luc Loslier
2. GIS, health, and epidemiology: an annotated resource guide — Steven Reader
3. Workshop agenda
4. Workshop participants

ORDER: IDRC 1995, 182 pp., ISBN 0-88936-766-3, $25

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