Training on GIS in Health

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About the course

In many spheres of human achievements technology has played a vital role by giving us powerful tools for interrogating our world, interpreting what we find and presenting that information. In this digital era GIS once an expensive and specialist skill, has become cheap and more accessible to many people and countries due to falling hardware costs and the availability of high-quality free satellite data and software. In this Course the participants will learn how to apply GIS in public health and epidemiological research. They will learn how to work with spatial and non-spatial data, how to visualize it and map it. The training will equip them with skill and tools for assessing Most at Risk Populations (MARPS) exposure to a range of environmental risks, and methodologies for spatial epidemiological or health risk assessment studies.

Target Participants

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

Course duration

5 days

What you will learn

By the end of this course the participants will be able to:

Investigate spatial patterns of health risks and disease rates
Communicate with technical specialists to develop program-specific geographic products
Work with and integrate spatial and non-spatial data
Undertake spatial analysis of environment and health data
Appreciate the role of geographic data and tools for health decision makers
Course Outline

Module I

Introduction

Dr John Snow example

Mapping and evidence based decision

National spatial data infrastructure

Strategic role of geography in health

spatial data concepts

Process for using geographic data and tools

Mobile based data collection for health applications

Using Mobile Phones for GIS data collection

Importing spatial data to Quantum GIS

Using data from databases database management

GIS in health applications

GIS concepts

GeoData sources for HIV/AIDS and other health related issues

Spatial data concepts

capabilities of GIS

GIS for health applications

QGIS interface and map basics

Working with tabular data

Create new health-care map layers using internal and local data

Spatially join and aggregate point data to create choropleth maps

Working with spreadsheets data in GIS

Building and coding the new variables

GIS analysis and mapping techniques

Prepare incidence and prevalence maps

Investigate spatial patterns of uninsured and poor populations

Import and project map layers for a local analysis

Project maps for health-data analysis at different geographic scales

Adding feature to GIS data

Reducing GIS data from large coverage to an area of interest

Techniques of overlying GIS data

Extracting subsets of GIS data for mapping

Designing maps for a health study

Design and build numeric scales for mapping attributes

Symbolize numeric scales for polygons using color ramps

Symbolize numeric scales for points using size-graduated point markers

Map the relationship of two variables

Build professional map' layouts for presentations and reports

GIS mapping of most at risk populations (MARPS)

GIS Mapping of health facilities and health resources

Case study: Studying disease outbreaks

Training Approach

This course is delivered by our seasoned trainers who have vast experience as expert professionals in the respective fields of practice. The course is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group works and case studies.

Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.

Certification

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be issued with a certificate.

Tailor-Made Course

We can also do this as tailor-made course to meet organization-wide needs. Contact us to find out more: training@devimpactinstitute.com