Ethical issues in public health informatics: Implications for system design when sharing geographic information

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 178-185

  Ölvingson, Christina ^a   Hallberg, Jonas ^a,b   Timpka, Toomas ^a   Lindqvist, Kent ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Confidentiality; Geographical information systems (GIS); Health informatics; IT security; Privacy; Public health; Requirements engineering (RE); Systems development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 0036628248     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1532-0464(02)00527-0     Document Type: Article

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