Geoprocessing in health area Geoprocesamiento aplicado en el área de salud Geoprocessamento aplicado à área da saúde

The map's usage and the concerns about geographic distribution related with diseases are not a recent issue. A classical example is the John Snow survey -maps were used to locate cholera's cases and related them with the water supplying. The spatial representation techniques are fewer used...

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Main Authors: Paula Hino, Tereza Cristina Scatena Villa, Cinthia Midori Sassaki, Jordana de Almeida Nogueira, Claudia Benedita dos Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2006-12-01
Series:Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692006000600016