GIS For Health Sector Programme Management Training

"Promoting organisational effectiveness"
INTRODUCTION This course offers an introduction to GIS and how it is used in public health and epidemiological research. It will introduce participants to the basics including working with and integrating spatial and non-spatial data; geographic scale and spatial precision; decoding; visualization; thematic mapping; and understanding spatial relationships. Specific skills and tools will be introduced in relation to assessing exposure to a range of environmental risks, and a particular focus .. continue reading will be given to methods for spatial linkage of exposure, contextual and confounder information for epidemiological or health risk assessment studies. .COURSE OBJECTIVES By the end of this course the participants will be able to: AA· Understand the basics of spatial data and its role in decision making AA· Undertake spatial analysis of environment and health data AA· Explain why geographic data and tools are important for health decision makers