Open AccessTHE USE OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) FOR IMPROVING SANITARY-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE AND SOCIO-HYGIENIC MONITORING
Author(s) -
Aleksandr O. Karelin,
A. Yu. Lomtev,
С. А. Горбанев,
Gennadiy B. Yeremin,
Yu. А. Novikova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
gigiena i sanitariâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.275
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2412-0650
pISSN - 0016-9900
DOI - 10.18821/0016-9900-2017-96-7-620-622
Subject(s) - geographic information system , gis and public health , environmental planning , environmental health , population , epidemiological surveillance , field (mathematics) , epidemiologic surveillance , environmental epidemiology , information system , geography , public health , environmental resource management , epidemiology , remote sensing , environmental science , engineering , medicine , mathematics , nursing , pure mathematics , electrical engineering
The article represents the analysis of reasons and possibilities of the usage of the geographic information systems (GIS) in the field of the sanitary-epidemiological surveillance and the social-hygienic monitoring. There are discussed the main advantages of GIS for the establishment of relations between health of the population and the environmental pollution. Requirements to maps and databases are given. Uncertainties and problems of databases on health of the population and state of environment are under consideration. Value of GIS for spatial planning and justification of sanitary protection zones and the prospects of their use in the Northwest region are shown.