Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về bệnh thú y được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành thú y đề tài: Geographical Information System (GIS) as a Tool in Surveillance and Monitoring of Animal Diseases. | Acta vet. scand. 2001 Suppl. 94 79-85. Geographical Information System GIS as a Tool in Surveillance and Monitoring of Animal Diseases By Madelaine Norstrom Ullevảlsvn. 68 8156 Dep. N-0033 Oslo Norge. In the veterinary epidemiology the advantage of mapping the locations of farms and other facilities with animals is obvious. In an outbreak of a disease it could make the management of the situation easier and it could also provide a tool to evaluate different strategies to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. This paper aims to describe and give an overview of the possibilities and potential uses of a Geographical Information System GIS in the field of surveillance and monitoring of animal diseases. The following areas in which GIS and special GIS-functions could be incorporated are presented recording and reporting information epidemic emergency cluster analysis modelling disease spread and planning control strategies. Different sources of data geographical data farm locations and disease information used in the development of the GIS at the National Veterinary Institute in Norway are thoroughly described in the paper. Further it presents a few examples where the GIS has been applied to studies of epidemiology and surveillance of animal diseases in Norway which shows the significant value of GIS in these areas. At the same time the incorporation of GIS in this field shows the scarcity of the data available which should encourage improvement in the data recording and the quality of the registries. Geographical Information Systems Surveillance Epidemiology. Introduction A Geographical Information System GIS can be used as a tool for any discipline which handles with data that can be connected with geographical locations such as countries regions communities or co-ordinates. The systems have been developing rapidly in the past and today there are a number of different software which are more user-friendly than in the past. GIS is about to become tools for .
