Where do you live? Health specialists think that simple question could make a difference in how doctors prevent and treat diseases for individuals. That’s expanding its storied role in public health.

Source: www.npr.org

This article highlights how spatial thinking and geospatial technologies can solve real world problems–in this case, tracking the spread of diseases is a spatial situation and not all places close to each other are equally connected to the same networks. 

 

Tags:  medical, diffusion, mapping, GIS, spatial, geospatial.