1. Race, class and place : directions for the future of public health / Gregory Pappas, Mohammed Akhter -- 2. Understanding health disparities through geographic information systems / Samuel Soret [and others] -- 3. Using a GIS and the American Community Survey to address community health problems / Jane L. McCall, Amy K. Pasini, Richard B. Wait -- 4. The application of spatial analysis to the public health understanding of alcohol and alcohol-related problems / Robert Lipton [and others] -- 5. The new kid on the block : a look at how geographic information systems are changing the face of cancer research / Jane L. McCall -- 6. Community breast cancer mapping in Huntington, Long Island / Scott Carlin -- 7. Application of a GIS-based statistical method to assess spatio-temporal changes in breast cancer clustering in the northeastern United States / Daikwon Han, Peter A. Rogerson -- 8. Geographical analysis of disease in small areas using hierarchical Bayesian models : mapping men's lung cancer mortality in Galicia, Spain / C.L. Vidal-Rodeiro [and others] -- 9. Using hierarchical nearest neighbor analysis and animation to investigate the spatial and temporal patterns of raccoon rabies in West Virginia / Andrew Curtis, Michael Leitner, Cathleen Hanlon --10. Spatial cluster analysis for etiological research and identification of socio-environmental risk factors / Michael Emch, Mohammad Ali.