FILL IN THE BLANKS. As one of the most longstanding uses of GIS in public health, disease surveillance is comprises the two primary activities of disease mapping and disease modeling. Disease mapping is ___; and disease modeling is ___.

a. Beneficial to summarize and display health indicators in an intuitive way; useful to understand potential disease risk in geographic areas lacking available data
b. Surveillance or reporting of current or historical disease incidence and prevalence; scenario building to hypothesize and predict disease transmission for enhanced control
c. Scenario building to hypothesize and predict disease transmission for enhanced control; surveillance or reporting of current or historical disease incidence and prevalence
d. Both a and b
e. Both a and c


Ans: d

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