Information technology and public health management of disasters - A model for South Asian countries

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 54-60

  Mathew, Dolly ^a  

^a INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

databases; disaster; disaster management; disaster medicine; geographic information surplus (GIS); health and disaster information network (HDIN); health care; India; information technology; Internet coordination and control; management information systems (MIS); model; South Asia; telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ASIA; DATA BASE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MASS COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; TELEMEDICINE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ASIA; DATABASES; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 16844376694     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00002156     Document Type: Article

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