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Health Geography

Innovative Geospatial Epidemiology

  • 1st Edition - February 25, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Andreas Tsatsaris, Anna Psaroulaki, Dimosthenis Chochlakis, Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Nikolaos Stathopoulos
  • Language: English

Health Geography: Innovative Geospatial Epidemiology presents a comprehensive exploration of the fundamental principles and methodologies underpinning remote sensing for spatia… Read more

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Health Geography: Innovative Geospatial Epidemiology presents a comprehensive exploration of the fundamental principles and methodologies underpinning remote sensing for spatial epidemiology. Organised in two parts, the first delves into the methodology of utilizing cutting-edge remote sensing technologies to detect, analyze, and predict the spatial distribution of infectious diseases through the process of extracting critical information and creating accurate geospatial models for disease mapping and monitoring. The second part provides numerous case studies that illustrate the real-world applications and transformative potential of the interdisciplinary approaches, allowing the book to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical implementation. Health Geography is an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in spatial epidemiology, geospatial sciences, and geostatistics seeking to utilize the potential of remote sensing technologies in tackling spatial epidemiological challenges.

Key features

  • Provides Earth Observation techniques to analyze spatial data and space–time variations in disease incidences
  • Delivers methodology for digital image processing, analysis and processing of primary data for monitoring, analyzing and spatiotemporal prediction of possible outbreaks
  • Includes a section of case studies on the use of remote sensing technologies for specific techniques, models and workflows to deal with disease

Readership

Researchers, practitioners, and advances students in geospatial health, health geography, Earth observation, spatial epidemiology and related areas that utilise remote sensing data to analyse the distribution of health factors

Table of contents

PART 1: Trends in Health Geography

1.Setting the stage: Geospatial epidemiology and health geography
Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos and Andreas Tsatsaris

2.The history of spatial epidemiology
Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos and Andreas Tsatsaris

3.Advancing spatial modeling for communicable diseases: From traditional approaches to epidemic forest frameworks
Meifang Li, Xiao Huang, and Xun Shi

4.Data quality in disease mapping
Adekola Adebiyi

5.Bayesian spatial hierarchical modeling for estimating small-area deprivation from census data
Demetris Lamnisos

6.Measuring perceptiveness: Unraveling the visual impact of thematic health maps
Andreas Tsatsaris, Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, and Ioannis Katsios

PART 2: Special Case Studies Using Innovative Techniques

7.Empowering COVID-19 monitoring through automated mapping
Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Ioannis Katsios, Vyron Antoniou, and Andreas Tsatsaris

8.Geospatial intelligence in action: The vector guard web geographic information systems for mosquito and vector-borne disease control
Lazaros Grammatikopoulos, Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Athanasios Kerasiotis, Panagiotis Pergantas, and Andreas Tsatsaris

9.The geospatial epidemiology of malaria in Greece
Panagiotis Pergantas, Andreas Tsatsaris, Nikolaos Demiris, Marios Kondakis, and Chrysovalantis Malesios

10.On the spatial analysis of leishmaniasis in Attica, Greece
Amygdalia Rigkou, Marios Kondakis, Nikolaos Demiris, Chrysovalantis Malesios, and Andreas Tsatsaris

11.Health geography insights into air quality dynamics during COVID-19 lockdown: A case study in Athens, Greece using Sentinel-5P and Google Earth Engine
Eleni Gkatsi, George P. Petropoulos, and Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos

12.Legionella surveillance in Crete, Greece: Spatial analysis and implications for public health management
Efstathios Koutsostathis, Anna Psaroulaki, Nikolaos Demiris, Dimosthenis Chochlakis, Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Panagiotis Andreopoulos, and Andreas Tsatsaris

13.Spatial aspects of Legionella
Dimosthenis Chochlakis, Katerina Tsilipounidaki, Apostolos Ntoukakis, Anna Ntaviglaki, and Anna Psaroulaki

14.Reading the percutaneous coronary intervention in the light of geospatial health
Evangellos Melidoniotis, Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Andreas Tsatsaris, Michail Zografakis-Sfakianakis, George Lazopoulos, Nikolaos Tzanakis, Ioannis Anastasiou, and Emmanouil Skalidis

15.Epilogue: Advancing health geography
Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos and Andreas Tsatsaris

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 9, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Andreas Tsatsaris

Professor Andreas Tsatsaris is a Rural and Surveying Engineer and President of the Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering of the University of West Attica (UniWA), Greece. He is also Director of the Research Laboratory "GAEA". He has been teaching since 1996 in Spatial Epidemiology, Medical Geography, GIS, and Thematic Cartography in both Postgraduate and Undergraduate Studies Programs of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Crete and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and the Faculty of Engineering at UniWA. He has published over 90 articles in scientific journals and international conferences and has participated in over 30 national and international research programs. He is a certified evaluator of the State Scholarship Foundation and General Secretariat in Research and Technology in the evaluation of research proposals.
Affiliations and expertise
Rural and Surveying Engineer and President, Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, University of West Attica (UniWA), Greece

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Anna Psaroulaki

Professor Anna Psaroulaki is a Clinical Biologist and Head of the Zoonoses & Geographical Medicine, Rickettsiae & TickBorne diseases and Microbiology of Food, Water & Environment Units, School of Medicine, UoC since 2017. Since 2014 she has been Scientific coordinator of the Regional Laboratory of Public Health of Crete, and has been Deputy scientific coordinator of the Regional Laboratory of Public Health of Crete since 2009. From 2006 to 2017, She was Head of the Unit of Zoonoses, and Geographical Medicine School of Medicine University of Crete. She teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels including Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, and Tropical and Geographical Medicine.
Affiliations and expertise
School of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece

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Dimosthenis Chochlakis

Dr Dimosthenis Chochlakis collaborates with the laboratory of Clinical Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis of the School of Medicine of the University of Crete. He also serves as the Technical Manager of the Regional Laboratory of Public Health of Crete. For the last 15 years he has been working on Legionella detection and has also taken part in many epidemiological investigations. He has participated in eight research protocols granted by the NSRF, the Ministry of Education Republic of Serbia and the Ministry of Health of Greece. Since October 2020 he also served for the setting up of the molecular analysis and detection of SARS-Cov-2 from waste-water samples.

Affiliations and expertise
University of Crete, Greece

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Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos

Dr. Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos is a Survey Engineer (Ph.D., MSc, and BSc), and an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, University of West Attica, Greece. His research interests are focused on GIS, SDI, spatial analysis, spatial epidemiology, natural disaster modeling, geoarchaeology, digital cartography, and geography. He is also a lecturer at the Greek National Centre for Public Administration & Local Government, a certified evaluator of the Greek General Secretariat in Research and Technology and an Expert in Earth Sciences in the use of GIS and Remote Sensing applications for the Institute of Educational Policy, of the Greek Ministry of Education. He boasts a publication record of over 100 articles in scientific journals and international conferences, which have garnered numerous references. His involvement extends to over 15 national and international research programs. Additionally, he serves as a reviewer for more than 25 esteemed scientific journals.

Affiliations and expertise
Survey Engineer (Ph.D., MSc, and BSc) and an Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, University of West Attica, Greece

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Nikolaos Stathopoulos

Dr. Nikolaos Stathopoulos is Scientific Project Manager at the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, BEYOND Centre of EO Research & Satellite Remote Sensing, Greece. He holds a PhD in Geoenvironmental Hazards & Water Resources via GIS & Remote Sensing from the National Technical University of Athens, MSc in Geoinformatics from Harokopio University of Athens, MSc in Water Resources from the National Technical University of Athens, and Bachelor in Mining Engineering specializing in Geotechnology. He has published over 35 scientific publications including journal papers, conference papers, and book chapters covering fields such as remote sensing, geographic information systems, hazards (e.g. floods, erosion, desertification, etc.), spatial analysis, geostatistics, and more. He has over 10 years of research, teaching and professional experience in the field of remote sensing and his main research interests are geoenvironmental hazards, climate change, hydrology and groundwater, modeling, quality and quantity of water resources, change detection, remote sensing, and GIS.
Affiliations and expertise
Scientific Project Manager, Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, BEYOND Centre of EO Research and Satellite Remote Sensing, Greece

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