Statistical, Mapping and Digital Approaches in Healthcare (Territory Management and Digital Healthcare)

This book is born from the coming together of an environmentalmathematician/researcher with an interest in health-related issues, anda public-sector doctor and university lecturer, specializing in medicalinformation processing, both teaching at the Department of RiskEngineering and Health IT (IRIS – département d’ingénierie du risque etinformatique de santé) in the Faculty of Medicine, at the University ofCôte d’Azur (UCA). The authors have previously collaborated on writinga collection of MCQs in mathematics and biostatistics, aimed at first-year university students taking the classes common to all medicalstudents, published by Ellipses.This book offers a new perspective on health data in connection withenvironmental issues – in particular, air pollution – consideringdifferent spatial and temporal scales. It is aimed at anyone interested inthe evolution and processing of territorial health data. In writing it, theauthors opted for systemic reflection, using concrete examples from theenvironmental field, rather than trying to write a coursebook, althoughreminders are presented in each chapter. Whilst the book follows alogical plan based on the historical evolution of uses of health and/orenvironmental data, each chapter can be read and understoodindependently of the others.The different chapters deal with the various methods used in processingand representing health data, supporting the discussion with a review ofthe academic literature produced in recent years. The goal is not to givean exhaustive treatment of all methods used but rather to open readers’eyes to the pros and cons of each method. Interested readers can gainmore information about the subjects of each of the larger chapters(statistics, cartography, digital technology) by consulting the numerousreferences mentioned in the text and in the bibliography....

Statistical, Mapping and Digital Approaches in Healthcare addresses all health territories, starting from the analysis of geographical data (health data, population data, health data systems and environmental data), to new health areas (Health 3.0), i.e. digital health territories. Specific tools are used to question environmental changes, such as health statistics, mapping, mathematical models, optimization models and serious games.

• Uniquely combines the approaches of mathematicians, geographers and physician to the analysis of health territories
• Presents views that are based on an interdisciplinary framework, proposing a new look on health
• Ideal for both clinicians and policymakers

In this transdisciplinary study, Gilles Maignant and Pascal Staccini have combined their respective expertise in environmental mathematical modeling and medical information processing to deliver a unique perspective on the complex links between health and environmental issues, with a particular focus on air pollution. -- Back cover