Track: Health Care
Using GIS and Internet Technology To Improve the Effectiveness of Blood Lead Screening and Intervention
Randy KnippelStephen Scott
Childhood exposure to lead remains a critical health issue confronting the U.S. population. GIS technology is used to create a spatial model of a variety of risk factors from which a numeric risk value can be calculated representing relative degree of risk of exposure to lead. The model is used to analytically determine degree of risk for a specific point of interest. This analysis can be offered as a service using the Internet, which provides easy access to otherwise unavailable data and allows the organizations responsible for maintaining the risk factor data to publish the data on an Internet server.
Randy Knippel
Dakota County
14955 Galaxie Ave. W.
Apple Valley, MN 55124
USA
Telephone: 612-891-7080
Fax: 612-891-7127
E-mail: rkhf4@wsc.co.dakota.mn.us