Spatial analysis of epidemiological data: case study in Olomouc region
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2012/s09.v2031" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2012/s09.v2031</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2012/s09.v2031" target="_blank" >10.5593/sgem2012/s09.v2031</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Spatial analysis of epidemiological data: case study in Olomouc region
Original language description
This paper presents usage of spatial methods applied on the epidemiological data from Olomouc region - one of administrative units of Czech Republic corresponding with NUTS3. The database of infectious diseases is called EPIDAT and it contains information about every case of the infection which is reported by local doctors. EPIDAT also contains data about infected patients like place of residence, place of infecting, time of treatment, way of isolation etc. Although exact addresses of patients are known, due to the necessity of the preserving anonymity, all records are aggregated into the scale of cadastral units or regular fishnet. Also only several selected diagnoses from the period 2004-2010 are used for purpose of this paper. Several specific problems arise with usage of health database within GIS. The biggest and most important tasks are editing of addresses into proper form followed by geocoding of several thousand records and subsequent anonymization of data. Main advantage of G
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
DE - Earth magnetism, geodesy, geography
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
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Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
Conference proceedings 12th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference, Volume II
ISBN
978-954-91818-3-8
ISSN
1314-2704
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Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
1155-1162
Publisher name
STEF92 Technology Ltd.
Place of publication
Sofia
Event location
Albena
Event date
Jun 17, 2012
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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