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Course Title: GIS for Health Sciences

Organising Institution: University of Leeds

When: September 13-14^th 2012

Event address: Room 9.161, Level 9,  EC Stoner Building, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT

Event Description:

This 1.5 day course provides an introduction to Geographical Information Systems (GIS) using ESRI's ArcGIS version 10.0 software. It provides participants with the opportunity to familiarise themselves with using and navigating the software, as well as focussing on the skills of data entry, data manipulation, editing, analysis and mapping. The emphasis of this course is working with health data such as prevalence of obesity in local areas. The course will mix teaching with demonstrations and hands-on exercises.  By the end of the course participants will be able to produce choropleth maps of health data, measure access to services using buffers and create network datasets for calculating detailed access measures. The participants will be given an overview of several key challenges in mapping and displaying health data and introduced to the most common types of map (choropleth, graduated symbol, interpolated surface).

Name of presenters: Dr Alison Heppenstall and Dr Dianna Smith

Level: Basic IT skills are required. A basic knowledge of ArcGIS software would be beneficial to those attending, but is not a requirement for this course. ArcGIS uses a menu-based interface. Participants should be familiar with the Microsoft Windows environment.

Duration: This is a 1.5 day course

Cost: £45 for postgraduate researchers/ £90 for academics. This course is open to students and staff at Higher Education Institutions throughout the UK and Ireland.  Cost includes lunch on first day.

For further information and to register, please visit:

http://store.leeds.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=234&deptid=9&catid=47