Apologies for cross-posting Dear All As someone who is doing research into the applicability of GIS in health and social care planning, one of the regular responses I get from professionals/clinicians in both areas is; ' have you any research findings that show in some sort of measurable outcome way, the value of spatiality ( I apologise if there is no such word but you know what I mean !)or some sort of evidence that specifically identifies the advantage of taking a spatial approach to using GIS within health and scoial care planning '? This seems to me to be a fair question and I sense that within the health GIS community we still go for the easy answers of - 'its not meant to replace other approaches, rather augment them or and isnt it lovely to be able to see your data on a map !' - and it might be nice to know of ways that could demonstrate this in a verifiable, objective and rigorous way. I would be interested to hear from anyone who knows of any good references or is interested in this issue - from both quantitative and qualitative GIS frameworks ! All help would be gratefully received particularly from people with a background outside of the core of spatial scientists. A second quick question also relates to whether anyone knows of good research or applications in internet mapping and health - specifically ones which critically address the data issues ( confidentiality, ethics, joint working, public health etc.) associated with disseminating information in this form. I know lots of nice web sites that use internet mapping in health - I guess I'd be more interested to know what people feel/know about the data implications behind using such technologies. Any help would be gratefully received. Thanks, Ronan Foley Geography Division, University of Brighton, UK. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
