Using Geographic Information for Disease Surveillance at Mass Gatherings

摘要: Mass gatherings present the medical community with an excellent window of opportunity to study infectious diseases that can be transmitted over long distances. This is because venue a mass gathering usually does not change year-to-year. As result, special attention given public health risks are introduced by travelers from around world into these gatherings. Travelers also infected endemic in host country and transport locally acquired their home environments. Therefore, thought as global-to-local-to-global events initial convergence global populations subsequent divergence throughout world. chapter discusses three active areas geographic research have emerged our understanding disease surveillance at gatherings: role transportation population geographies surveillance; spatial temporal dimensions environmental geography spread disease; advances GIScience provide real-world monitoring injuries