Environmental Tracking for Public Health Surveillance

ISBN-13: 9780415584715 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 480 str.

Stanley A. Morain; Amelia M. Budge

Opis

Satellite imagery and data are widely used in public health surveillance to provide early warning of disease outbreaks and for averting pandemics. Convergence of these technologies began in the 1970s and has gained wide acceptance in the 21st Century. Environmental Tracking for Public Health Surveillance focuses on the expanding use of satellite sensor imagery and long- term spectral measurements for assessing and modelling Earth's environments in context of public health surveillance. It addresses vector-borne, air-borne, water- borne, and zoonotic diseases, and explores analytical methods for forecasting environmental conditions and their potential for consequent disease outbreaks. Infectious and contagious diseases are of particular interest in this volume because once parasite-vector-human host pathways are triggered by favourable biological circumstances, pandemic diseases can spread to global scale in a matter of hours. The chapters advance readers through three sets of material. Part I reviews the 1970-2012 history of satellite Earth-science surveillance technology that led to linking natural environments to human diseases, and more generally to public health applications. Part II describes specific infectious and contagious diseases and the threat of emerging and re- emerging diseases. Part III explores the kinds of satellite data, modelling, and electronic information systems being developed to expedite health intercessions and responses at local to regional and global scales of reference. Equally important are the extensive reference sections for chapters in Parts II and III. For readers interested in tracking the development of Earth-science technology, these constitute a thorough entr e to both the health and environmental literature. The chapters are written jointly by experts in both the health and Earth-science technologies. Each chapter is accompanied by an extensive list of citations to provide background and valida

Spis treści

Preface
Foreword
List of contributors
Acronyms

Part I Introduction
Earth observing data for health applications
S.A. Morain & A.M. Budge

Part II Infectious and contagious diseases in the environment
Vector-borne infectious diseases and influenza
R.K. Kiang

Water, water quality and health
S.I. Zeeman & P.Weinstein

Air quality and human health
D.W. Griffin & E.N. Naumova

Emerging and re-emerging diseases
C.J.Witt

Part III Data, modelling, and information systems
Data discovery, access and retrieval
S. Kempler

Environmental modelling for health
S.A. Morain, S. Kumar & T.J. Stohlgren

Early warning systems
P. Ceccato & S.J. Connor

Towards operational forecasts of algal blooms and pathogens
C.W. Brown

Information and decision support systems
W. Hudspeth

Author index
Subject index
ISPRS Book Series
Colour plates

O autorze

The editors have spent almost 85 years developing satellite-based environmental applications, the most recent 20-years of which have focused on developing respiratory heath applications funded by the Applied Sciences Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. They have been active professionally in the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). For most of their funded R&D efforts they have served as principal investigators and co-PIs on multidisciplinary teams.  In addition to peer-reviewed technical publications, they have served as author-editors for several books and sponsored research reports. Stanley Morain is currently Professor Emeritus of Geography and retired director of the Earth Data Analysis Center, University of New Mexico. Amelia Budge continues to be a co-PI on a NASA-sponsored multi-year project to develop a Pollen Regional Atmospheric Model (PREAM) for respiratory health. She recently completed her duties as Chairperson of the 2008-2012 ISPRS working group for Commission VIII (Remote Sensing Applications and Policy), Working Group 2 (Health).