Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Geohealth: Improving Public Health through Geographic Information
University of Twente
In this online course, participants gained understanding of how spatial data and geo-information methods and techniques can contribute to solving public health problems. The course covered topics including components of a GIS for health applications, but also a range of in-depth topics including machine learning, agent-based modeling, spatial statistics and health care accessibility studies.
4 weeks, 4 hours per week
P.W.M. Augustijn-Beckers
Lecturer and Researcher in GeoInformatics
University of Twente
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Debate with other participants about recent developments within the field of GeoHealth
- Reflect on components of the Geohealth system and the relevance of these components
- Investigate several new analytical approaches with the GeoHealth domain
- Contribute to the discussion on the relevance of several new analytical techniques
- Explore scientific research in the Geohealth domain
Syllabus
- Components of a GIS for health applications (spatial data, software, mapping, analysis techniques, people)
- In depth topic on “Accessibility and Health Facility Planning”
- Using Volunteered Geographic Information within the Health Domain
- Spatio-temporal machine learning and data mining
- Using Self-Organizing Maps to discover spatio-temporal patterns
- Agent-Based modeling for health applications
- Spatial dependence and variograms
- Spatial Clustering and Smoothing
- Universal Health Coverage
Issued on 5th December 2016
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