A framework for enhancing spatial and temporal granularity in report-based health surveillance systems

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Chanlekha, Hutchatai ^a   Kawazoe, Ai ^b   Collier, Nigel ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^b TSUDA COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REPRODUCIBILITY;

DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 77449136650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-10-1     Document Type: Article

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