Geospatial Health: The first five years

Geospatial Health

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 137-154

  Utzinger, Jürg ^a,b   Rinaldi, Laura ^c   Malone, John B ^d   Krauth, Stefanie J ^a,b   Kristensen, Thomas K ^e,f   Cringoli, Giuseppe ^c   Bergquist, Robert ^g  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^g Brastad   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bibliometric analysis; Content analysis; Geographical information system; Geospatial Health; Human development index; Remote sensing; Spatial analysis; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856029455     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2011.166     Document Type: Review

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