Geospatial Technologies for Urban Health

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Urban Health Risk and Disease.-  Chapter 2. Geospatial Approaches to Measuring Personal Heat Exposure and Related Health Effects in Urban Settings.- Chapter 3. Geographic variation in Cardiovascular disease mortality: A study of linking risk factors and built environment at a local health unit in Canada.- Chapter 4. Evaluating the effect of domain size of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model on regional PM2.5 simulations.- Part II- Urban Health Service Access.- Chapter 5. Serving a Segregated Metropolitan Area: Disparities in Spatial Access to Primary Care Physicians in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.- Chapter 6. Considerations When Using Individual GPS Data in Food Environment Research: A Scoping Review of 'Selective (Daily) Mobility Bias' in GPS Exposure Studies and its Relevance to the Retail Food Environment.- Chapter 7. Dynamic Emergency Medical Service Dispatch: Role of Spatiotemporal Machine Learning.- Part III.  Healthy Behavior and Urban Lifestyle.- Chapter 8. Incorporating Online Survey and Social Media Data into a GIS Analysis for Measuring Walkability.- Chapter 9. Leveraging social media to track urban park quality for improved citizen health.- Part IV. Health Policies and Urban Health Management.- Chapter 10. Spatio-temporal Analysis and Data Mining of the 2014-2016 Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in West Africa.- Chapter 11. Extending Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) with Geospatial Software as a Service: Participatory Asset Mapping Infrastructures for Urban Health.- Chapter 12. Improving Urban and Peri-Urban Health Outcomes Through Early Detection and Aid Planning.