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Earth Observation, Public Health and One Health - Activities, Challenges and Opportunities (Hardcover)
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Earth Observation, Public Health and One Health - Activities, Challenges and Opportunities (Hardcover)
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This book reviews the contributions of Earth Observation (EO) to
public health practices. It examines how EO is being used to
understand, track, predict, and manage infectious and chronic
diseases, and it provides discussion on the current challenges and
the significant development potential of EO to a One Health
approach. Its objective is to address a set of questions: How does
EO currently assist public health activities? What are the
challenges for operational use of EO in public health? What are the
opportunities for EO to benefit public health in the near future?
This review concentrates on the following priority themes to which
EO and geomatics can make important contributions: mosquito-borne
and tick-borne diseases; water-borne diseases; air quality and
extreme heat effects; and geospatial indicators of vulnerable human
populations. EO has also demonstrated potential during the COVID-19
pandemic as an efficient provider of data on rapid environmental
and socio-economic changes and impacts. Remotely sensed data are
particularly useful for risk modelling and mapping projects to help
generate information on occurrence and spatio-temporal trends of
disease risk. Similarly, EO can be used to identify risk factors
for disease risk or emergence detected in surveillance, and support
development of early warning systems. Risk maps enable public
health professionals to anticipate and prepare for health threats,
and they can support responses to infectious disease epidemics or
existing endemic conditions. This book emerged from the
collaboration of the Public Health Agency of Canada and the
Canadian Space Agency with contributions of international experts.
Their findings will be of great value to public health and EO
professionals interested in developing and applying geospatial
applications in the risk assessment and management of public health
issues.
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