ABSTRACT
We hope that the papers in this volume give something of the flavour of contemporary, mostly European, work on GIS in health research. There are at least three ways in which European collaboration might develop further in the area of GIS and health. The first, and most obvious, is to set up comparative studies of particular health problems, perhaps reviewing links in different settings between health and the physical environment, or between health outcomes and social environments. Can we put to work the same kinds of GIS-related methodologies to explore the same health problems, but in different European countries? Some work along these lines is ongoing (for example, van der Veen et al., 1994), but there is scope for further collaborative research projects.
