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cord-016141-mtxdn5ks	Oppong, Joseph R.	From Medical Geography to Computational Epidemiology – Dynamics of Tuberculosis Transmission in Enclosed Spaces	2006		.txt	text/plain	3488	180	39	By enabling the simultaneous examination of multiple factors associated with disease linked by location, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) facilitate medical geography research. While GIS has enabled Medical Geographers to address previously inconceivable complex health-related phenomena, their ability to deal with the dynamic processes of disease transmission among population groups, which usually requires complex interactions among numerous variables, is quite limited. Although the role of Epidemiologists and Medical Geographers has become more pronounced in light of public health threats, computational tools that would enhance quality of information, facilitate prediction, and accelerate the generation of answers to specific questions are still lacking. This may include models of Tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in different environments (homeless shelters, factories etc.), a West Nile Virus outbreak in a specific geographic region, or the progression of infectious diseases such as measles in the United States.	./cache/cord-016141-mtxdn5ks.txt	./txt/cord-016141-mtxdn5ks.txt