Mapping libyan health facilities - A collaboration between crisis mappers and the world health organization

ISCRAM 2012 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chan, Jennifer L ^a   Colombo, Robert ^b   Musani, Altaf ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING;

CRISIS MAPPINGS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS; HEALTH SYSTEMS; PLANNING PHASIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HEALTH;

EID: 84905594358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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