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You are here: Home / News / Business / GIS Tutorial for Health, an Essential Book for Students and Analysts Alike

GIS Tutorial for Health, an Essential Book for Students and Analysts Alike

June 25, 2014 By Editor

Redlands, California—June 24, 2014—GIS Tutorial for Health, Fifth Edition, published by Esri Press, helps health professionals and students learn how to analyze data and solve problems using geographic

information system (GIS) technology.

 

This edition has been fully updated for ArcGIS 10.2 for Desktop software compatibility. To better support skill building and GIS analysis, the workbook features extended introductions to numerous tutorials and

assignments addressing significant issues of health care and policy planning. Step-by-step exercises cover health map basics, data preparation for maps, and spatial analysis of health issues using GIS.

 

Authors Kristen S. Kurland and Wilpen L. Gorr comprise a well-known team that has written several GIS tutorials and reference books. Both are professors at Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III College.

 

In the preface to the book, the authors write, "GIS Tutorial for Health is a unique textbook for teaching GIS to health professionals, medical residents, nursing students, and students interested in health IT

and informatics, health care administration, and health policy. After teaching GIS for over 20 years, we know that you, like our own students, will enjoy this subject and software."

 

This tutorial teaches students and public health professionals how to use GIS to analyze and manage data.Exercise data is available for download, as well as a free 60-day trial of ArcGIS for Desktop software and relevant extensions. This book is a valuable resource for course instruction—instructor resources are

available separately—as well as personal use.

 

GIS Tutorial for Health, Fifth Edition (paperback, ISBN: 9781589483729, 460 pages, US$79.99), is available at online retailers worldwide, at esri.com/esripress, or by calling 800-447-9778. Outside the United States,

visit esri.com/esripressorders for complete ordering options, or visit esri.com/distributors to contact your local Esri distributor. Interested retailers can contact Esri Press book distributor Ingram Publisher Services.

 

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About Esri

Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS technology, Esri software is used in more than 350,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world’s mapping and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at esri.com/news.

 

About Esri Press

Esri Press publishes books on GIS, cartography, and related topics. The complete selection of GIS titles from Esri Press can be found on the web at esri.com/esripress.

 

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