Lyseen A K, Nøhr C, Sørensen E M, Gudes O, Geraghty E M, Shaw N T, Bivona-Tellez C
Anders Knørr Lyseen, Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, E-mail:
Yearb Med Inform. 2014 Aug 15;9(1):110-24. doi: 10.15265/IY-2014-0008.
The application of GIS in health science has increased over the last decade and new innovative application areas have emerged. This study reviews the literature and builds a framework to provide a conceptual overview of the domain, and to promote strategic planning for further research of GIS in health.
The framework is based on literature from the library databases Scopus and Web of Science. The articles were identified based on keywords and initially selected for further study based on titles and abstracts. A grounded theory-inspired method was applied to categorize the selected articles in main focus areas. Subsequent frequency analysis was performed on the identified articles in areas of infectious and non-infectious diseases and continent of origin.
A total of 865 articles were included. Four conceptual domains within GIS in health sciences comprise the framework: spatial analysis of disease, spatial analysis of health service planning, public health, health technologies and tools. Frequency analysis by disease status and location show that malaria and schistosomiasis are the most commonly analyzed infectious diseases where cancer and asthma are the most frequently analyzed non-infectious diseases. Across categories, articles from North America predominate, and in the category of spatial analysis of diseases an equal number of studies concern Asia.
Spatial analysis of diseases and health service planning are well-established research areas. The development of future technologies and new application areas for GIS and data-gathering technologies such as GPS, smartphones, remote sensing etc. will be nudging the research in GIS and health.
在过去十年中，地理信息系统（GIS）在健康科学中的应用有所增加，并且出现了新的创新应用领域。本研究回顾了相关文献并构建了一个框架，以提供该领域的概念性概述，并促进对GIS在健康领域进一步研究的战略规划。
该框架基于来自图书馆数据库Scopus和Web of Science的文献。通过关键词识别文章，并根据标题和摘要初步筛选以供进一步研究。采用扎根理论启发的方法将所选文章分类到主要关注领域。随后对已识别文章在传染病和非传染病领域以及原产洲进行了频率分析。
共纳入865篇文章。健康科学中GIS的四个概念领域构成了该框架：疾病的空间分析、卫生服务规划的空间分析、公共卫生、健康技术和工具。按疾病状况和地理位置进行的频率分析表明，疟疾和血吸虫病是最常被分析的传染病，而癌症和哮喘是最常被分析的非传染病。在所有类别中，来自北美的文章占主导地位，在疾病空间分析类别中，涉及亚洲的研究数量相同。
疾病的空间分析和卫生服务规划是成熟的研究领域。GIS以及全球定位系统（GPS）、智能手机、遥感等数据收集技术的未来技术发展和新应用领域将推动GIS与健康领域的研究。
