Mapping Community Health: GIS for Health and Human Services

GIS technology is used by public health service agencies to address complex health and human service issues such as the opioid epidemic,homelessness,food insecurity,health and racial inequities. Mapping Community Health: GIS for Health and Human Services explores real-life case studies of using GIS to build healthier communities and increase accessibility to health care.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 120 pages
Publication date: 15 April 2022
Publisher: ESRI Press

Improving health outcomes, increasing access to healthcare, and building healthier communities require a modern approach to understanding complex health and human service issues that are more costly and devastating than ever before. Public health service agencies worldwide rely on geographic information systems (GIS) technology daily to address the opioid epidemic, homelessness, food insecurity, health and racial inequities, and more. By applying GIS, you too can better prepare for and respond to health emergencies and human crises and build the resilience your community will need for the future.

Mapping Community Health: GIS for Health and Human Services explores a collection of real-life case studies about using geographic information system (GIS) technology to help build communities that improve health outcomes and increase accessibility to healthcare. A "next steps" section provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your own use of GIS for health and human services. Supplementary online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas, and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, extend the value of this book.

Edited by Christopher Thomas, Director of Government Marketing at Esri, Shannon Valdizon, State and Local Government Marketing Lead at Esri, and Matt Artz, an Esri content strategist.

Dimension: 203 x 139 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781589486997