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Environmental Tracking for Public Health Surveillance (Hardcover, New)
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Environmental Tracking for Public Health Surveillance (Hardcover, New)
Series: ISPRS Book Series
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Satellite imagery and data are widely used in public health
surveillance to provide early warning of disease outbreaks and for
averting pandemics. Convergence of these technologies began in the
1970s and has gained wide acceptance in the 21st Century.
Environmental Tracking for Public Health Surveillance focuses on
the expanding use of satellite sensor imagery and long-term
spectral measurements for assessing and modelling Earth's
environments in context of public health surveillance. It addresses
vector-borne, air-borne, water-borne, and zoonotic diseases, and
explores analytical methods for forecasting environmental
conditions and their potential for consequent disease outbreaks.
Infectious and contagious diseases are of particular interest in
this volume because once parasite-vector-human host pathways are
triggered by favourable biological circumstances, pandemic diseases
can spread to global scale in a matter of hours. The chapters
advance readers through three sets of material. Part I reviews the
1970-2012 history of satellite Earth-science surveillance
technology that led to linking natural environments to human
diseases, and more generally to public health applications. Part II
describes specific infectious and contagious diseases and the
threat of emerging and re-emerging diseases. Part III explores the
kinds of satellite data, modelling, and electronic information
systems being developed to expedite health intercessions and
responses at local to regional and global scales of reference.
Equally important are the extensive reference sections for chapters
in Parts II and III. For readers interested in tracking the
development of Earth-science technology, these constitute a
thorough entree to both the health and environmental literature.
The chapters are written jointly by experts in both the health and
Earth-science technologies. Each chapter is accompanied by an
extensive list of citations to provide background and validation of
the current state-of-the-art for a variety of high-interest human
diseases and associated health and well-being issues. The
importance of day-to-day weather patterns, the impacts of severe
weather events and longer-term climate cycles form the basis for
developing information systems that meet goals and expectations of
national and international health monitoring bodies. Environmental
Tracking for Public Health Surveillance provides a state-of-the-art
overview on how environmental tracking data from satellite,
airborne, and ground-based sensors are being integrated into
appropriate geophysical and spatial information system models to
enhance public health surveillance and decision-making from local
to global levels, and is intended primarily for a
cross-disciplinary professional audience consisting of public
health decision-makers, spatial data analysts, modelers, Earth
observation specialists, and medical researchers.
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