Main description:

Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the most important tools to help us understand public health and many aspects of our lives. Because of COVID-19, GIS has been brought into the spotlight more than ever before. People and civic leaders worldwide are turning to maps and real-time surveillance data to make sense of what has been happening in the world and to get answers to important questions on every aspect of this pandemic. This book examines the role of GIS in managing and controlling the spread of COVID-19 through 11 global projects and a multidisciplinary approach. It explains the innovative uses of GIS not only limited to data organization and data access, but also how improved GIS tools are used to make decisions, plan, and communicate various measures of control in both local and full-scale outbreaks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Features:

1. Provides cutting edge GIS visualization, spatial temporal pattern, and hot spot tracking applications used for predictive modeling of COVID-19.

2. Includes real world case studies with broad geographic scope that reflect COVID-19 trends in cases, deaths, and vaccinations.

3. Provides lifestyle segmentation analysis on the risk of transmission of COVID-19 and spatial patterns of vaccination hesitancy

4. Highlights real world issues brought to light with the help of GIS, such as social discrimination, inequalities in women's access to mental health care, and analyzes the risk of transmission due to vaccination hesitancy.

5. Shows the use of GIS and spatial analysis at pandemic mapping, management, and control from masking and social distancing to testing site locations accounting for at-risk and vulnerable populations.

6. Discusses facilitating policy making with GIS.

Edited by a very talented medical geographer and GIS Professor Dr. Esra Ozdenerol, this book highlights key GIS capabilities and lessons learned during the COVID-19 response that can help communities prepare for the next crisis. It is a great resource for industry professionals and experts in health care, public health and safety, disaster management, and for students, academics, and researchers interested in applying GIS and spatial analysis to the study of COVID-19 and other pandemics.

Contents:

1. The Role of GIS in COVID-19 Management and Control 2. Information Access as a Strategy to Overcome Health Inequities in the Context of COVID-19 3. Spatial Pattern of COVID-19 Positivity Rates in Indonesia during Local Restriction Phase: A Case study of Jakarta and Surabaya City 4. Investigating Spatial Relationships of Age and Comorbidities on COVID-19 Spread Using Geographically Weighted Regression 5. Spatiotemporal Patterns of Covid-19: A District-level Analysis of Kerala, India, 2020-2021 6. The 2020 Hurricanes, Internal Displacements and COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean Countries: Lessons Learned for Disaster Risk Reduction 7. Hot Spot Tracker: Detecting and Visualizing the Types of Spatiotemporal Hot Spots of COVID-19 in the United States 8. Lifestyle Effects on the Risk of Transmission of COVID-19 in the United States: Evaluation of Market Segmentation Systems 9. A Bibliometric Review of Research on the Role of GIS in COVID19 Pandemic Control and Management: Science Mapping the Literature, 2020 - 2022 10. The Use of Geographic Information Systems to Shape COVID Policies Regarding Masking and Distancing with A Partially Vaccinated Population 11. Using GIS to Map Women's Health, Well-being and Economic Opportunities in the Context of COVID-19 12. The Effects of Lifestyle on COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United States: An Analysis of Market Segmentation 13. A Gendered Approach to Examining Pandemic Induced Livelihood Crisis in the Informal Sector: the Case of Female Domestic Workers in Titwala