Full Description
Spatial literacy—the ability to visualize, understand, and use the properties of space to communicate, reason, and problem-solve—is relevant to public health across disciplines. Spatial Literacy in Public Health: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Collaborations offers ideas and plans for collaborative spatial literacy teaching and learning initiatives focusing on Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based and GIS-related instruction through the lens of public health topics.
Chapters include step-by-step learning activities, teaching tips, recommended readings, and four-color maps and other useful illustrations. These offer ideas that will help build skills and fluency in spatial literacy across many disciplines. Such interdisciplinary topics include supply chain management; temporal comparisons; social media campaigns; data visualization; racial disparities and other demographic themes related to immunization patterns, epidemiology, recreation access, and community health and environmental health/environmental science; and interdisciplinary projects related to education (including K-12).
Spatial Literacy in Public Health offers specific plans for spatial literacy instruction and activities in public health across disciplines. Learning activities support open source tools, open educational resources (OER), and other institutional cost-saving initiatives, and the ability to adapt from in-person to virtual instruction settings.
Contents
Introduction
Laureen P. Cantwell-Jurkovic and Tammy E. Parece
Part I. Beginner Concepts, Learning Activities, and Skills
Chapter 1. Fundamentals of Spatial Data for Public Health
Forrest J. Bowlick and AÍda R. Guhlincozzi
Chapter 2. Evaluating GIS Data Using the Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose (CRAAP) Test
Bryan Fuller and Martin G. Ndegwa
Chapter 3. Participatory Mapping for Public Health
Jugal Patel and Nicolas Parent
Chapter 4. Using Geospatial Visualizations to Better Understand Public Health Data
Aaron M. Adams, Debarchana Ghosh, Xiang Chen, Weidong Li, Chuanrong Zhang, Adam Gallaher, and Ashley G. BenÍtez Ou
Chapter 5. Mapping and Evaluation of Community Resources, Access, and Populations Using Public-Use Software and Data Files
Wladimir Labeikovsky and Dana Abbey
Chapter 6. Visualizing Public Health Data: Using the U.S. Covid Atlas and GeoDa for Spatial Insights
Cecilia Smith and Marynia Kolak
Part II. Intermediate Concepts, Learning Activities, and Skills
Chapter 7. Easily Map Socioeconomic Variables for Public Health Courses: Introductory Mapping Tools for Public Health Exploratory Research
Todd Quinn and Sarah Shrum Davis
Chapter 8. Tracking Disease Outbreaks and Health Communication with Social Media Analytics and GIS
Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Eyal Oren, and Atsushi Nara
Chapter 9. Anticipating a Post-Disaster Supply Chain Disruption
Chapter 10. Analyzing Spatial Clusters for Multiple Attributes: A Case Study for Obesity and Sleep Deficiency
Lucy Cousins and Seda Şalap-AyÇa
Part III. Advanced Concepts, Learning Activities, and Skills
Chapter 11. Spatial Epidemiology: Spatial Clustering and Vulnerability
Bartholomew Hill, Harriet Moore, and Frank Tanser
Chapter 12. Built Environment and Physical Activity: Online GIS Technology for Mapping Environment-Behavior Relationships
Muntazar Monsur
Chapter 13. Geospatial Tools for Environmental Health Issues
Chunrong Jia
Chapter 14. Student Involvement in Soil Collection for Environmental Lead (Pb)
Matthew L. Sisk, Heidi Beidinger, Marya Lieberman, and Meghanne Tighe
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