Geneva, february 13 - 17, 2006

Participants will have the opportunity to undertake the following studies during the exercises:

• Analysis of the spatial distribution of cancer mortality (lung, pancreas, prostate, breast, cervix) in 295 New England counties (USA) and its relationships to a set of environmental, socio-economic and behavorial covariates (e.g. smoking and obesity).
• Detection of cancer clusters (breast, lung, colorectal) in 214 ZIP codes in Long Island (USA), and their relationships to poverty and environmental data collected by the National Air Toxics Assessment Program.

Test datasets will be prepared so that results of geostatistical prediction and impacts on decision-making can be compared and discussed during the course. Ample time will be allocated to discussion and to answer questions regarding current environmental and epidemiological issues faced by short course participants.

Excess of prostate cancer mortality cases (per 100,000 habitants per year) recorded for African American relatively to white males across the US , period 1990-1994. Rates estimated using Poisson kriging.	Breast cancer mortality rates (per 100,000 habitants per year) recorded for white females across the Northeast, period 1970-1994

Last update: 12/20/2005 by Hélène Demougeot-Renard.