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Spatial Epidemiology in Public Health
Mathuros Tipayamongkholgul*
ABSTRACT Regarding the disease occurrence
concept,diseasedoesnotoccurrandomly,
it is dominated by typical physical and
biologicalcharacteristicsofthearea.Spatial
epidemiologyisapublichealthtoolthatwas
developedundersuchconceptthataimsto
describeandanalyzediseasesituations in
eacharearegardingpopulation,environmental,
societal,behaviorandgeneticfactors.Also,
Ecological design, Geographic information
systemandSpatialstatisticsareemployed
toidentifyecologicalfactorsrelatingtohealth
situation.Up todate, spatial epidemiology
hasbeenappliedtoseveraldisciplinesuch
as criminology, environmental health and
surveillancesystem.Spatialepidemiologyin
publichealthhasassistedtosetresource
allocationplanning,healthserviceplanning,
operatingdiseasepreventionandcontrol.
Key words:epidemiology,GIS,publichealth
J Public Health 2012; 42(3): 44-54
Correspondence:Mathuros Tipayamongkholgul. Department of
Epidemiology, Faculty of Public Health,
MahidolUniversity,Bangkok,10400,Thailand.Email:[email protected]*
DepartmentofEpidemiology,FacultyofPublicHealth,MahidolUniversity
