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Conservation medicine; Epidemiology, spatial; Epidemiology, landscape
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Disease ecology represents an intersection of population ecology, community ecology, epidemiology and environmental health focused on the study of (typically infectious) disease within a population of individuals. Analysis often focuses on the interactions of at-risk individuals with each other and with elements of their environment. Accordingly, spatial factors often play key roles in disease ecology due to the influence of heterogeneous geographic distributions (e. g., host distributions, vector abundance, and landscape barriers to contact) on the spread of an infectious disease.
The phrase “exploratory spatial analysis” encompasses a wide range of goals and techniques for investigating patterns and process within georeferenced data. The phrase intersects other phrases in the literature and merits brief discussion. Bailey and Gatrell (1995) distinguish between “spatial analysis” and “spatial...
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Waller, L. (2008). Exploratory Spatial Analysis in Disease Ecology. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_396
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