Exploring the role of GIS during community health assessment problem solving: Experiences of public health professionals

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Scotch, Matthew ^a   Parmanto, Bambang ^a,b   Gadd, Cynthia S ^a,c   Sharma, Ravi K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIENCE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ONLINE SYSTEM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH STATUS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT;

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33749174159     PISSN: 1476072X     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-5-39     Document Type: Article

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