Description
This volume contains the refereed proceedings of the first Workshop on Geomedical Systems, GEOMED ’97, held in Rostock, Germany, in September 1997. Geographical Epidemiology.- Detecting Space-Time Patterns in Geocoded Disease Data.- A Spatiotemporal Model: An Application to the AIDS Epidemic in Sao Paulo, Brazil.- A GIS Approach to Mapping AIDS in the United Kingdom: Standardisation of a Heterogeneous Dataset.- Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis of Motor Neurone Disease in North West England: Beyond the Address at Diagnosis.- The Use of Density Estimation Techniques in Mapping the Distribution of Hepatitis A.- The Use of Different Aggregation Levels in Visualisation and Spatial Analysis of Epidemiological Data.- Statistical Methods.- The Detection of Outbreaks of Infectious Disease.- Representing Aggregation and Scale Effects in HIV/AIDS Epidemic Modelling Systems.- A New Approach to Space-Time Modelling of Infectious Disease Behaviour.- Spatial Modelling of Cluster Object And Non-Specific Random Effects, With Application in Spatial Epidemiology.- Systems.- Information Systems for Surveillance of Communicable Diseases.- The European Influenza Surveillance Scheme First Experiences with an Internet Application.- Spatial Data Analysis Support for Cancer Epidemiology in CARESS.- Monitoring the Participation of Sentinel General Practitioner with the Health Care Workstation SITIE.- A Strategy for Geomedical Surveillance Using the Hawkeye Knowledge Discovery System.- An Early Warning System for Detection and Prediction of Outbreaks of Epidemics.- Visual Analysis as an Efficient Tool for the Exploration of Human Health Data.- Content Analysis and Visualization of Epidemological Documents on the Internet.- An Artificial Neural Network Model for the Spread of Communicable Diseases.- Identifying Clusters in Spatial Area Data.
