the international society of geospatial health

Factors contributing to the spread of infectious disease include land use change affecting vector and host habitats, human interaction with vectors, urbanization, population mobility and changes in the ways water and food are delivered.

Is about understanding the complex interactions between the environment; the individual ecologies of pathogen, vector, and host; and the effects of disease management, to predict how global and local variation in the interplay among ecological forces shape vector-borne diseases to produce shifts in disease transmission dynamics.

Community health profiling focuses on analysis and mapping of community characteristics, such as socio-economic status, health behavior, environmental health impacts and associated (costs of) medical care use. 

Health access and planning is about the application of Geo-IT to describe and model a population’s ability to use health services when needed. 

Geospatial tools is about the development and application of new geographical, computer-based models and technologies for improved mapping and control of diseases of medical and veterinary importance.