Potable drinking water is essential to public health; however, few studies have investigated
income or racial disparities in water infrastructure or drinking water quality. There were many …

Authoritative and comprehensive, this is the leading text and professional resource on using
geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and address public health problems. Basic …

High-resolution population distribution data are critical for successfully addressing important
issues ranging from socio-environmental research to public health to homeland security …

The increase in the number and severity of weather extremes (including excessive heat)
potentially associated with climate change has highlighted the needs for research into risk …

This paper discusses the importance of determining an accurate depiction of total population
and specific sub-population distribution for urban areas in order to develop an improved" …

Exposure has amplified rapidly over the past half century and is one of the primary drivers of
increases in disaster frequency and consequences. Previous research on exposure change …

National census data represent the “gold standard” for authoritatively portraying a country's
residential population distribution, but their aggregated counts for fixed administrative areas …

This study examines how tornado risk and societal exposure interact to create tornado
disaster potential in the United States. Finescale historical and projected demographic data …

Background To reduce the number of non-geocoded cases researchers and organizations
sometimes include cases geocoded to postal code centroids along with cases geocoded …

Spatial population distribution data is the discretization of demographic data into spatial
grids, which has vital reference significance for disaster emergency response, disaster …