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Although cholera can be life-threatening, it is nearly always easily prevented, in principle, if proper sanitation practices are followed.
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society
Society for Epidemiologic Research
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John Snow (1813-1858), a British physician who is one of the founders of medical epidemiology, showing cases of cholera in the London epidemics of 1854, clustered around the locations of water...
Epidemiology contributed with early work on disease mapping, notably John Snow's work mapping an outbreak of cholera, with research on mapping the spread of disease and with locational studies for health care delivery.
It has been argued that GIS is an extremely dangerous tool in epidemiology, because of its potential for identifying all sorts of spurious correlations between environmental factors and the occurrence of disease.
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Historically, GIS was thought to be "owned" by Geography but, like statistics, the applied disciplines are claiming their own GIS turf on campuses and GIS courses in (e.g., natural resources, agriculture, business, epidemiology, ...
It has also helped geography cross over into other fields such as anthropology, epidemiology, forestry, and business. All of this together, has led geography to resemble these fields as a "new approach to science" (Clarke 1997, 5).
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