A Map for You? Geographic Information Systems in the Social Services

Social Work

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 455-468

  Queralt, Magaly ^a   Witte, Ann D ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child care; Geographic information systems; Maps; Social services

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000751151     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/43.5.455     Document Type: Article

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