Geography and medecine, GEOMED '99

Many worldwide infectious diseases are known to be highly sensitive to climate and weather. However, causative relationships between environmental factors and epidemic disease activity are still poorly understood. The sophisticated use of geographic information, as well as extensive and more accurate use of computer data-processing are not only profoundly changing the methods of early warning systems in epidemiology, but also the modalities of coverage of geographic disparities in public health. The proceedings of the Second international workshop on geomedical systems, Geomed'99, addresses issues that are concerns to scientists from a variety of disciplines, namely statistics, geography, epidemiology, computer science and public health science, for whom sharing new findings is today of the utmost importance before new avenues may be opened.