Posted by SKILL UP
Social Care/Development, Care Management
Health, Medical, Training
Start date
18/03/2019
End date
22/03/2019
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.
.COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of this course, the learner will - within a public health context - be able to:
COURSE CONTENT
Section 1: GIS for Health Sector Programme Management Introduction
Section 2: Spatial data collection techniques for health applications
Section 3: Data Visualization
Section 4: Geocoding tabular data
Section 5: Case Study: Studying disease outbreaks
General Notes
• For any enquiry at: [email protected] or +254712260031
• Website: www.fdc-k.org