Welcome to GIS and Public Health, a Web site designed to provide information on GIS, or Geographic Information Systems, at NCHS and in the larger public health community. On this page, you can access current or past reports of Public Health GIS News and Information, selected maps, a calendar of GIS and related events, and links to related sites. GIS link data and geography digitally for the purpose of making maps. This technology often provides a useful way to reveal spatial and temporal relationships among data. Researchers, public health professionals, policy makers, and others use GIS to better understand geographic relationships that affect health outcomes, public health risks, disease transmission, access to health care, and other public health concerns. GIS is being used with greater frequency to address neighborhood, local, State, national, and international public health issues.
This page last reviewed January 11, 2007
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