Creation of environmental health information system for public health service: A pilot study

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 531-542

  Li, Ling ^a   Xu, Li ^a   Jeng, Hueiwang Anna ^a   Naik, Dayanand ^a   Allen, Thomas ^b   Frontini, Maria ^c  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Environmental health; Geographic information systems; Healthcare service; Information network; Integrated information system; Internet medicine; Public health

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DISEASE CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION USE; LITHIUM; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC POLICY; WEIGHT CONTROL;

CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION; ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FUTURE RESEARCH; HEALTHCARE SERVICE; INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES; INFORMATION NETWORK; INTEGRATED INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET MEDICINE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PILOT STUDIES; POLICY-MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RICARDO;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 52949130221     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-008-9108-1     Document Type: Article

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