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Exploring the role of GIS during community health assessment problem solving: experiences of public health professionals |
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| Authors: | Matthew Scotch Bambang Parmanto Cynthia S Gadd and Ravi K Sharma |
| Institution: | (1) Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, 200 Meyran Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA;(2) Department of Health Information Management, University of Pittsburgh, 6051 Forbes Tower, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA;(3) Department of Behavioural and Community Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 228 Parran Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA;(4) Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, 2209 Garland Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, USA |
| Abstract: | BackgroundA Community health assessment (CHA) involves the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in conjunction with other software to analyze health and population data and perform numerical-spatial problem solving. There has been little research on identifying how public health professionals integrate this software during typical problem solving scenarios. A better understanding of this is needed to answer the "What" and the "How". The "What" identifies the specific software being used and the "How" explains the way they are integrated together during problem solving steps. This level of understanding will highlight the role of GIS utilization during problem solving and suggest to developers how GIS can be enhanced to better support data analysis during community health assessment. |
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