Visualizing the Infrastructure of US Healthcare Using Internet GIS: A Community Health Informatics Approach for Reducing Health Disparities

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2004, Pages 1197-1201

  Fulcher, Christopher L ^a   Kaukinen, Catherine E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

geographic information systems; Health care; Internet; public health informatics; public policy

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

COMMUNITY HEALTH; DECISIONS MAKINGS; HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; HEALTH DISPARITIES; HEALTH INFORMATICS; HEALTH-CARE DECISIONS; INTERNET GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET-BASED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; POLICY MAKERS; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS;

HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSUMER; DATA VISUALIZATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEMOGRAPHICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC POLICY; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MANAGEMENT;

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 21644437659     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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