Geomatics in injury prevention: the science, the potential and the limitations: Figure 1

Abstract

By supporting novel approaches to injury prevention, geomatics has a great potential for efforts to combat the burden of injury. Despite some limitations, those with an interest in injury prevention could benefit from this science.

An evidence-based method for targeting an abusive head trauma prevention media campaign and its evaluation

“…The use of GIS as a tool to link social, economic, ecologic, and demographic factors is critical for better understanding of injury and its prevention. 22 The ability to map the distribution of injury and populations at risk as well as spatially analyzing these data can assist in the planning and targeting of interventions. 23 Indeed, the mapping of the factors deemed to be important to health and media experts for an AHT prevention campaign was used to target the campaign in areas of the city and populations in greatest need of the message.…”

Geographic Cluster Analysis of Injury Severity and Hospital Resource Use in a Regional Trauma System

“…Most revolve around injury prevention issues such as finding clusters of injuries for potential mitigation interventions such as traffic quieting and education of populations at risk. 15,[17][18][19][20][21][22] There have been two studies of the clustering of cardiac arrest cases that showed differential location effects of the application of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) 23 and the response of non-first-due fire apparatus 24 on survival rates. A few studies have evaluated resource deployment strategies, usually helicopters for trauma incidents.…”

Sprawl Dynamics in Rural–Urban Territories Highly Suited for Wine Production. Mapping Urban Growth and Changing Territorial Shapes in North-East Italy

“…In ArcGIS, the latter calculates the density of points within an investigated geospatial radius, weighing the values according to the attributes of the point and allocating them to each output raster cell [45]. This method is useful primarily as a visualization technique [46] (p. 53). The choice was made paying particular attention to the extension of the artificial surfaces, as polygons had distinct areas within the established radius.…”