摘要
随着科技的发展,地理信息系统已逐渐应用于交通、农业、环境和自然资源的管理等 社会领域,最近它也被应用于卫生领域中的环境与疾病关系的研究。地理信息系统是一个计算 机辅助的空间数据信息管理系统,一般来说,应用地理信息系统可以实现空间数据的管理(采 集、储存和维护),分析(统计、空间建模)和显示(图形、地图制作)。由于健康在很大程度上由环 境因素决定,地理信息系统的空间建模技术可以帮助我们很好的理解疾病的发生和环境因素, 以及医疗卫生系统之间的关系。地理信息系统在疾病研究、健康教育以及卫生项目的规划、监 测和评估中,必定会成为一个很重要的工具。
With the development of information science, the Geographic Information System technology (CIS) has been used in many fields such as transport and agricultural planning, environment and natural resources management, etc. It has been reported that this technology has been applied to showing the cause effect relationships between environmental conditions and health. Generally, the objectives of a GIS are the management (acquisition, storage, maintenance), analysis (statistical, spatial modeling), and display (graphics, mapping) of geographic data. As health is largely determined by environmental factors, it always has an important environmental and spatial dimension. The spatial modeling capacities offered by GIS can help one understand the spatial variation of the incidence of diseases and its covariation with environmental factors and the health care system. GIS in health-related activity can play a role at disease study, health planning and health education.
出处
《国外医学（医学地理分册）》
CAS
2004年第4期185-188,共4页
Foreign Medical Sciences：Section of Medgeography
关键词
地理信息系统
环境因素
健康
空间分析
Geographic information system
Environmental factors
Health (Spatial analysis
