Integrating open-source technologies to build low-cost information systems for improved access to public health data

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Yi, Qian ^a   Hoskins, Richard E ^a,b   Hillringhouse, Elizabeth A ^a   Sorensen, Svend S ^a   Oberle, Mark W ^a   Fuller, Sherrilynne S ^a   Wallace, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REGISTER; UNITED STATES;

CENSUSES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; LIFE EXPECTANCY; NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; REGISTRIES; SOFTWARE; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

EID: 45949107681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-7-29     Document Type: Article

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