Implementing a public web based GIS service for feedback surveillance data on communicable diseases in Sweden

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Rolfhamre, Per ^a   Grabowska, Katarzyna ^a   Ekdahl, Karl ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SECURITY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LABORATORY TEST; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; EPIDEMIC; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNET; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SWEDEN;

EID: 10444239194     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-4-17     Document Type: Article

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