Buku Akhbar ESRI Mengajar Bagaimana untuk Menggunakan Analisis Geospatial untuk Menyiasat Isu-isu Kesihatan

Redlands, CA - The newly updated GIS Tutorial for Health, Third Edition, from ESRI Press, provides hands-on training in geographic information system (GIS) software for public health professionals and students.

The third edition of this popular textbook trains readers on how to use ESRI's ArcGIS Desktop software to manage, analyze, and map data to reveal spatial patterns and trends. The lessons were recently updated to be compatible with ESRI's latest software release, ArcGIS 9.3.

Health care professionals use the software to study geographically referenced data and create analytic maps that can, for example, show where lung cancer mortality rates are high and what factors might be involved. GIS software can be used to study an array of health data on illnesses, accidents, and uninsured populations to support health studies and formulate health care policies.

Readers will study GIS concepts, learn the various health applications for using GIS software, and work through tutorials that include case studies and data. GIS Tutorial for Health, Third Edition, also contains a new tutorial that uses ESRI's ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension to estimate the demand for automated defibrillators in public places.

This step-by-step tutorial is a valuable resource for students in the classroom or individual users. The book comes with an ArcGIS Desktop 180-day trial DVD and a CD with new data. The book's coauthors are Kristen S. Kurland and Wilpen L. Gorr. Kurland holds a joint faculty appointment in the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she teaches GIS, CAD, 3D visualization, and computer-aided facilities management (CAFM). Gorr is a professor of public policy and management information systems at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches and researches GIS applications. GIS Tutorial for Health, Third Edition (ISBN: 9781589482241, 384 pages, $79.95), is available at online retailers worldwide, at www.esri.com/esripress, or by calling 1-800-447-9778. Outside the United States, visit www.esri.com/esripressorders for complete ordering options or contact your local ESRI distributor. For a current distributor list, visit www.esri.com/distributors. Interested retailers can contact ESRI Press book distributor Ingram Publisher Services.

About ESRI Press
ESRI Press publishes books on GIS, cartography, and the application of spatial analysis to many areas of public and private endeavor including land-use planning, health care, education, business, government, and science. The complete selection of GIS titles from ESRI Press can be found on the Web at www.esri.com/esripress.

About ESRI
Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 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 www.esri.com.