GIS Mapping For Community Health And Development A Toolkit For Policymakers And Practitioners

This book explores how maps generated through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be used to integrate principles of health equity and environmental justice into community planning and decision-making. To do this the book puts forward the 3Ps of GIS mapping: People Place and Policy. This book demonstrates how different maps reveal different spatial disparities for each topic providing alternative lens for addressing socio‑cultural political or geographical issues. Using a step-by-step approach and covering the core concepts by which GIS maps can be interpreted it builds to provide a comprehensive understanding of what a GIS-generated map may tell us though crucially also what it may not. Featuring illustrated examples throughout this book is essentially a tool kit to support a nuanced and holistic perspective on community planning. It will appeal to policymakers planners and public health consultants as well as students moving toward this field. |GIS Mapping for Community Health and Development A Toolkit for Policymakers and Practitioners