Division of Environmental Health Science, University of California, Berkeley, 710 University Hall (Office and GIS Lab), Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2010 Apr;7(4):1302-29. doi: 10.3390/ijerph7041302. Epub 2010 Mar 26.
(1) to summarize various geographic information science methods; and (2) to provide a review of studies that have employed such methods. Though not meant to be a comprehensive review, this paper explains when certain methods are useful in epidemiological studies and also serves as an overview of the growing field of spatial epidemiology.
(1) 总结各种地理信息科学方法；(2) 回顾使用这些方法的研究。虽然本文无意进行全面综述，但它解释了某些方法在流行病学研究中何时有用，也概述了空间流行病学这一不断发展的领域。
