Geomed 97: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Geomedical Systems Rostock, Germany, September 1997 (Informatik und Unternehmensfhrung)

This volume contains the refereed proceedings of the first Workshop on Geomedical Systems, GEOMED '97, held in Rostock, Germany, in September 1997. Geographical Epidemiology.- Detecting Space-Time Patterns in Geocoded Disease Data.- A Spatiotemporal Model: An Application to the AIDS Epidemic in Sao Paulo, Brazil.- A GIS Approach to Mapping AIDS in the United Kingdom: Standardisation of a Heterogeneous Dataset.- Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis of Motor Neurone Disease in North West England: Beyond the Address at Diagnosis.- The Use of Density Estimation Techniques in Mapping the Distribution of Hepatitis A.- The Use of Different Aggregation Levels in Visualisation and Spatial Analysis of Epidemiological Data.- Statistical Methods.- The Detection of Outbreaks of Infectious Disease.- Representing Aggregation and Scale Effects in HIV/AIDS Epidemic Modelling Systems.- A New Approach to Space-Time Modelling of Infectious Disease Behaviour.- Spatial Modelling of Cluster Object And Non-Specific Random Effects, With Application in Spatial Epidemiology.- Systems.- Information Systems for Surveillance of Communicable Diseases.- The European Influenza Surveillance Scheme First Experiences with an Internet Application.- Spatial Data Analysis Support for Cancer Epidemiology in CARESS.- Monitoring the Participation of Sentinel General Practitioner with the Health Care Workstation SITIE.- A Strategy for Geomedical Surveillance Using the Hawkeye Knowledge Discovery System.- An Early Warning System for Detection and Prediction of Outbreaks of Epidemics.- Visual Analysis as an Efficient Tool for the Exploration of Human Health Data.- Content Analysis and Visualization of Epidemological Documents on the Internet.- An Artificial Neural Network Model for the Spread of Communicable Diseases.- Identifying Clusters in Spatial Area Data.