On this page we've listed some websites that may be useful to anyone who is interested in public health research, especially techniques involving the geographical analysis of health related data and health related research using GIS and spatial modelling technologies.
For general links to ScHARR and any other University of Sheffield departments please see contacts page.
University health & spatial analysis research groups
University of Sheffield GIS
users portal
Social and spatial inequalities research
group
University of Sheffield crime
mapping project
Imperial College BIAS
project - a Bayesian methods project
WorldMapper
project - the world in cartograms
NHS public health surveillance & research
Sheffield's Health
Informatics Service
Doncaster's Public
Health Intelligence Unit
Regional Public Health Observatories: YHPHO,
NEPHO, NWPHO,
EMPHO, WMPHO,
ERPHO, LHO
, SWPHO , SEPHO
National public health observatories: Scotland,
Wales,
Ireland,
Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO).
Public health web resources
Department of Health resource for Public Health practictioners - HealthKnowledge
Technology & spatial analysis resources
WinBUGS,
home of the development of the BUGS app'
OpenBUGS,
new "OpenSource" home for the BUGS app'
maps2WinBUGS
- a tool for transformation from different vector graphical map formats
to the GeoBUGS format.
Imperial College BUGS
projects page
GeoDa - freely
available spatial data analysis & mapping app', which is also supported
by a useful website
OpenSource GIS
- index of OpenSource & free GIS related software
Data Resources
DOI - Digital Object
Identifiers (used in publication references)
MIMAS - Manchester
Information & Associated Services
EDINA - bibliographic
databases, maps, boundary data . . .
Go-Geo! - hosted
by EDINA this is a tool designed to help you find details about geo-spatial
datasets and related resources.
National Census Information - census
population programme
Ordnance
Survey - UK mapping
National Statistics
- UK government national statistics resource
DCLG - formerly
the ODPM and a source for IMD data.
UK government social
exclusion projects & policy information
Featured Websites
From the Health Informatics team as Sheffield PCT - The
Sheffield Health and Well-being Atlas
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click here
to get to the DH's public health information and intelligence strategy
web pages
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a new Public Health knowledge website with an especially good medical statistics section
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Worldmapper - it may also be worthwhile reading this Science Online article on cartograms
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BIAS project - An Imperial College Bayesian methods project with links to other Bayesian resources.
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Maps2WinBUGS - this looks useful but we've not had time to test it !
Public Health News
The British Journal of Healthcare Computing & Information Management
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broken and missing links - if you find any broken links
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