Exploratory Spatial Analysis Methods in Cancer Prevention and Control -- Exploratory Spatial Analysis Methods in Cancer Prevention and Control -- Environmental Risk Factor Diagnosis for Epidemics -- Environmental Risk Factor Diagnosis for Epidemics -- A Study on Spatial Decision Support Systems for Epidemic Disease Prevention Based on ArcGIS -- A Study on Spatial Decision Support Systems for Epidemic Disease Prevention Based on ArcGIS -- Development of a Cross-Domain Web-based GIS Platform to Support Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases -- Development of a Cross-Domain Web-based GIS Platform to Support Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases -- A GIS Application for Modeling Accessibility to Health Care Centers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia -- A GIS Application for Modeling Accessibility to Health Care Centers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia -- Human and Environmental Factors -- Applying GIS in Physical Activity Research: Community ‘Walkability’ and Walking Behaviors -- Objectively Assessing’ Walkability’ of Local Communities: Using GIS to Identify the Relevant Environmental Attributes -- Developing Habitat-suitability Maps of Invasive Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia.L) in China Using GIS and Statistical Methods -- An Evaluation of a GlS-aided Garbage Collection Service for the Eastern District of Tainan City -- A Study of Air Quality Impacts on Upper Respiratory Tract Diseases -- Spatial Epidemiology of Asthma in Hong Kong -- Disease Modeling -- An Alert System for Informing Environmental Risk of Dengue Infections -- GIS Initiatives in Improving the Dengue Vector Control -- Socio-Demographic Determinants of Malaria in Highly Infected Rural Areas: Regional Influential Assessment Using GIS -- A Study of Dengue Disease Data by GIS Software in Urban Areas of Petaling Jaya Selatan -- A Spatial-Temporal Approach to Differentiate Epidemic Risk Patterns -- A “Spatiotemporal Analysis of Heroin Addiction” System for Hong Kong -- A Public Health Care Information System Using GIS and GPS: A Case Study of Shiggaon -- GIS and Health Information Provision in Post-Tsunami Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam -- Estimating Population Size Using Spatial Analysis Methods -- Avian Influenza Outbreaks of Poultry in High Risk Areas of Thailand, June-December 2005.

The book is a compilation of methodological and application developments in spatial epidemiological approaches for environmental and public health studies in the Asia Pacific region. It is intended for practitioners in the field, including geospatial experts, practicing epidemiologists, medical doctors, environmentalists and public health physicians concerned with the impact of environmental exposures on the health of population.