... Katy Appleton GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making Edited by Stephen Wise and Max Craglia Dynamic and Mobile GIS: Investigating Changes in Space and Time Edited by Jane Drummond, Roland Billen, ... or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data GIS and eviden...
... victimization identification A stand-alone package; data handling and chart reporting functions Database; geo-coding and reporting functions Well-suited stand-alone software; set of spatial statistical ... interface, computer languages and scripts have been integrated such as Visual Basic (SCAS, RCAGIS, and CrimeStat), and MapObject (RCAGIS and Community Policing Beating Book, an...
... precise and up-to-date information for efficient decision -making on how to respond to changes in circumstances (Table 7. 2) No systems-in-use consider all aspects of the flood industry, and nearly ... in England and administers the legislation that enables work to be carried out The Flood and Coastal Defence Programme is aimed at reducing risk to people and the developed and na...
... health and geographical information sciences (Openshaw et al., 1 988 ; Knox, 1 989 ; Besag and Newell, 1991; Alexander and Cuzick, 1992; Kulldorff, 1999) Within the domain of public health and spatial ... 713 88 2 661 552 1 181 350 n=a n=a n=a FIGURE 8. 5 Map showing the results from Query for the inner-city area of Sheffield (From 1991 Census: Digitised Boundary Data (England and...
... Group, LLC 12. 3 Furthering the Network: Heritage Management and Sustainability Sustainability and the integration of policy and action are key aims underpinning much of EU legislation and policy ... development into a GIS template as shown in Figure 12. 1b 12. 6 Heritage Management and the NPI The decision to develop a GIS- based system over a database came about through...
... confirmed the results of the GIS- based calculations shown in Figure 13. 5 There was also a good level of agreement between the GIS- predicted site catchments (e.g., Figure 13. 6) and the facilities that ... A.A., and Sunnenberg, G., 2001, A classification of local authority waste collection and recycling strategies in England and Wales Resources, Conservation and Recycling 32,...
... communities and, specifically, to help residents to understand the statistical manipulations involved in local area policy making and grant allocation procedures The Maps and Stats PPGIS is also ... bcsp-web.org) The BCSP’s Maps and Stats system is an innovative and purposeful PPGIS, the lessons from which should be of interest to both researchers and other local governments So...
... influence health policy decision making Decision maker utility Many policy theorists call for policy making to focus more on understanding the decision process rather than on making decisions ... evidencebased policy making (EBPM) reinforces the need to examine some of the factors that bias the decision- making process We believe recognition of the m...
... regional hypoperfusion that is technically simpler and easier to apply than gastric tonometry [10,11] There are other applications of carbon dioxide monitoring that may fulfil these criteria The key ... medicine is that hypoperfusion causes oxygen deficit and increases tissue carbon dioxide production Furthermore, hypoperfusion is not always clinically apparent There is large body o...
... practice stakeholder perceptions of factors affecting evidence-based practice implementation using concept mapping Implementation Science 2011 6:104 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and ... cited as one of the major barriers to successful implementation of EBPs [11,12] Differences across stakeholder groups in their perceptions of the importan...
... ways of meeting the need, provides the back-drop for the discussions at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Entitled Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Health ... Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine Contents Summary 1 The Changing Nature of Health Care Introduction, 33 Evidence-based medicine a...