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GIS AIDS Alaska Native Health Study
January 6th, 2009
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium will publish a study in January 2009 which utilizes Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyze incidents of disease and injury across Alaska tribal health regions. GIS technology allows the Consortium to analyze leading causes of death such as cancer, heart disease and injury in more complex and sophisticated ways. A comparative analysis of health disparities can be conducted, as well as identifying clusters of disease. GIS also provides a mechanism for visually displaying these statistics, which helps communicate the results to the public at large. GIS is quickly becoming a very useful tool in the...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-01-06)
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