GIS for Emergency Preparedness and Health Risk Reduction

Preface. Acknowledgements. Part One: GIS for emergency preparedness and health risk reduction: concepts and principles. 1. Preparing for environmental health emergencies: the role of GIS; D. Briggs, L. Beale. 2. Timelines, environments and issues of risk in health: the practical algebra of (x, y, t, a); P. Forer. 3. Social models of disaster: vulnerability and empowerment; A. Staines. 4. Uncertainty in the application of GIS for predictive health risk assessment for a radioactive waste repository in Slovenia; B. Kontic, et al. Part Two: GIS for emergency preparedness. 5. Evaluation of volcanic fallout impact from Vesuvius using GIS; M.T. Pareschi. 5. Volcanic risk assessment and spatial planning policies in the island of Hawaii; U.F. Paleo, F. Trusdell. 7. The risk assessment of hazardous materials transporting using GIS; A. Lovett, et al. 8. A GIS-aided frequency planning for terrestrial broadcasting and land mobile services; S. Topcu, et al. 9. Progress towards harmonised European industrial risk management information systems; C. Kirchsteiger, F. Mushtaq. 10. Application of the Seveso II Directive in Slovenia with the support of GIS; M. Gerbec, B. Kontic. Part Three: GIS for health risk reduction. 11. A European health and environment information system for exposure and disease mapping and risk assessment (EUROHEIS); S. Cockings, L. Järup. 12.Address geocoding for small area en environmental health studies in Denmark; H. Hansen, A. Poulstrup. 13. Health characteristics of the Stockholm population &endash; diseasemapping using a computerised system; C. Reuterwall, et al. 14. Small area statistics on health (SMASH): a system for rapid investigations of cancer in Finland; E. Kokki, et al. 15. Geographical distribution of cardiovascular mortality in Comunidad Valenciana (Spain); J. Ferrándiz, et al. 16. Application of GIS for assessing the risk of water-borne diseases in the Samarkand Province; D. Fayzieva, et al. 17. Geographical aspects of mortality and morbidity data in Hungary: a GIS analysis; G. Nádor, et al. List of Workshop Participants. Index.