Full Description
This book explores how maps generated through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be used to integrate principles of health equity and environmental justice into community planning and decision-making.
To do this, the book puts forward the 3Ps of GIS mapping: People, Place and Policy. This book demonstrates how different maps reveal different spatial disparities for each topic, providing alternative lens for addressing socio‑cultural, political, or geographical issues. Using a step-by-step approach, and covering the core concepts by which GIS maps can be interpreted, it builds to provide a comprehensive understanding of what a GIS-generated map may tell us, though crucially also what it may not. Featuring illustrated examples throughout, this book is essentially a tool kit to support a nuanced and holistic perspective on community planning.
It will appeal to policymakers, planners, and public health consultants, as well as students moving toward this field.
Contents
Preface. Section 1: Place. 1.Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Which Is the Right Map of All? 2.Looking Inside Versus Outside: Natural Breaks Map. 3.Quartiles, percentiles, standard deviation maps and more: Who is above the mean? Who is below? Section 2: Policy. 4.Maps as an outcome of measures. 5.How not to compare apples with oranges: approaches for area and point data. 6.What to Map: Choosing between Aggregated versus Disaggregated Data, Categories versus Quantitative. 7.Measurements: Are More the Merrier? Section 3: People. 8.Yardstick competition: Am I similar to my neighbors? 9.Do Birds with the Same Feather Flock Together? From Social Marketing to Using Maps for Geographically Targeted Health Intervention.
