Mapping Health Geography

Mapping Health Geography in Nova Scotia Workshop
October 29, 2007

The purpose of this workshop was to bring health researchers together to discuss the opportunities, benefits and challenges of geomatics in health research. The collaboration will continue to enhance Nova Scotia's health research capacity.

Workshops objectives were to:

create a province wide dialogue on current expertise and resources related to geomatics and health research. To continue this collaboration a Health Geomatics Directory (PDF Attachment) has been created;
identify future opportunities for collaboration on health research;
identify next steps in building a “network” of health researchers using geomatics; and
collectively identify problems and work as a cohesive group to look at solutions.

Session Report

Ideas and issues that came from discussions and speaker presentations were captured in a formal report. (PDF Attachment)

Presentations

What is Health Geomatics (PDF Attachment)
Judy Guernsey & Bob Maher

Panel - Social & Built Environments (PDF Attachment)
Geospatial Mapping of Health Inequities and the Social Determinants of Health - Elizabeth McGibbon
Deprivation and Health in Nova Scotia Communities - Mikiko Terashima
Exploring the influence of the built environment on childhood obesity: a GIS approach - Trevor Dummer

Panel - Etiology (PDF Attachment)
Study of the etiology of childhood disease - Louise Parker
Geomatics for Population Health Research: Using Wearable Sensors to assess Human Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution in Urban and Rural Nova Scotia - Daniel Rainham
Mapping the obesogenic environment of Nova Scotia - Sara Kirk

Panel - Health Policy Planning (PDF Attachment)
An Exploration of GIS Applied to Health Services in NS - Jennifer Payne
The Halifax Space Time Activity Research (STAR) Project: Spatio-Temporal Opportunities for Public Health Research- Jamie Spinney
Researching Dimensions of Rural Environments and Health using GIS - Judy Guernsey
Using GIS for Health Planning Nova Scotia - Pamela Jones

Panel - Technology To Support Health Geomatics (PDF Attachment)
Geomatics Lab - Bob Maher
GeoNova - Spatial Data - Colin MacDonald
GIS Technology - Corey Nelson