Geomapping health data. "...an individual and community concern"?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22301553

Sci Transl Med. 2012 Feb 1;4(119):119mr4.
Geomapping health-related data.
Sayani S.
Source
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. SSayani@dhmh.state.md.us.

Abstract
In August 2011, scientists and policy-makers held a conference entitled "Using IT to Improve Community Health: How Health Care Reform Supports Innovation." One of the conference sessions was entitled "Geo-mapping: Framing health needs and issues as an individual and community concern." This Meeting Report describes how geographical information systems can be used to analyze health-related data for medical care and policy making.