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Research in health geomatics
Complete list of funded research projects
Geomatics are the scientific field in which spatial data concerning the world in which we live is administered, analyzed and distributed. In contrast to the beginnings of geomatics where this science was used essentially in the geographic field, the geomatic methods are now commonly used in other fields such as the human body or populational health. Integrating geomatics into the health field brings new knowledge of diseases and new research hypotheses and also provides access to pertinent information for professionals and administrators working in the health field.
As a spatial and temporal analyzing tool, geomatics is still hardly used in the field of non infectious diseases such as cardiovascular diseases. This is surprising because this tool, combined with spatial temporal statistic analyses, allows us to see the tendencies, correlation and interrelations between physical, political, social and health environments and represents an excellent tool in the analysis of epidemiological, visualization and decision making data. The PRIMUS group’s research projects study the care given in cases of chronic disease. The projects aim to identify the potential variables that explain the geographic and social demographic disparities observed. The research approach consists in understanding the links between biological, social cultural, environmental, organization of health care factors and medical workforce analysis. The research project also aims to develop spatial temporal information systems adapted to the study of chronic diseases such as myocardial infarction, osteoporosis and diabetes.
Some of our research projects use geomatics in populational health in order to establish links between variables such as chronic diseases and the spatial and temporal distribution of risk factors or service installations for the population. Other research programs have a more fundamental approach such as the development of spatial methods and statistics and their operational integration in geographic information systems (GIS).
More informations (in french) :
Presentation: Geomatics and applications to Health research (in french)
Geomatics (Québec géographique)
Health Geomatics
SIST-MC
Québec géographique
Baliz-Média
Géomatique 2009
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