GIS for Health Sector Programme Management Training

Name: GIS for Health Sector Programme Management Training
Price: 835.5

Training

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Start date

22/07/2019

End date

02/08/2019

Cost

£835.50

Overview

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 will be given to methods for spatial linkage of exposure, contextual and confounder information for epidemiological or health risk assessment studies.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Public health practitioners, epidemiologists, exposure scientists, quantitative health geographers, risk assessors, students

What you will learn

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course, the learner will - within a public health context - be able to:

Understand the basics of spatial data and its role in decision making
Undertake spatial analysis of environment and health data
Explain why geographic data and tools are important for health decision makers
Understand geography as a unifying framework and GIS as a tool to collect, link, analyze, visualize, manage, and share data and information
Distinguish between the different tools used to collect, analyze, and manipulate geographic data
Communicate with technical specialists to develop program-specific geographic products Work with and integrate spatial and non-spatial data
Integrate data from different geographic scales and spatial precision
Geocode and visualize spatial data
Investigate spatial patterns of health risks and disease rates
Produce thematic maps and reports