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A Case Study on Epidemic Disease Cartography Using Geographic Information

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Health Information Science (HIS 2016)

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Research of epidemiology is one of the important components in the field of public health while spatial epidemiology combing traditional epidemiology with Geographic Information Science is often regarded as an effective way for visualization analysis. Here we conduct a disease study under the help of spatial technologies using one-year real epidemic data collected from Ningbo, Zhejiang, China where an epidemic cartography approach taking data scale into account is newly proposed and elaborated. The demonstrated experimental results indicate that the proposed method performs more flexible for analysis than that of traditional statistical methods.

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This work is supported by Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (15I03) and Natural Science Foundation in China (No. 41601428, 41301439). The authors would like to thank both Health and Family Planning Commission of Ningbo Municipality and Ningbo Zhongjing Technology Development Limited Cooperation for providing the experimental epidemic data.

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  1. Sino-Aus Research Center on Social Computing and Data Management, Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, No. 1 Xuefu Road, Ningbo, 315010, Zhejiang, China

    Changbin Yu, Yiwen Wang, Ke Huang & Honglei Cui

  2. School of Management, Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, No. 1 Xuefu Road, Ningbo, 315010, Zhejiang, China

    Changbin Yu, Yiwen Wang, Ke Huang & Honglei Cui

  3. College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, No. 866 Yuhangtang Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China

    Jiangang Yang

  4. Ningbo Zhongjing Technology Development Limited Cooperation, Ningbo, 315010, Zhejiang, China

    Mingfang Dai

  5. Ningbo Yizhou Institute of Surveying and Mapping, Ningbo, 315010, Zhejiang, China

    Hongjian Chen

  6. Service Center for Registration of Immovables in Ningbo, Ningbo, 315010, Zhejiang, China

    Yu Liu

  7. Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Information Smart Sensing and Services, Shenzhen, 518060, China

    Zhensheng Wang

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Yu, C. et al. (2016). A Case Study on Epidemic Disease Cartography Using Geographic Information. In: Yin, X., Geller, J., Li, Y., Zhou, R., Wang, H., Zhang, Y. (eds) Health Information Science. HIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10038. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48335-1_20

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