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GIS for health organizations

Year: 2000

Type: article

Abstract: The case studies presented in for Health Organizations illustrate how GIS has become a tool that helps provide more efficient and appropriate health management options to patients. GIS assists health professionals with tracking the spread of infectious disease, determining sites for new hospitals, mapping the demand for future health care needs, and even marketing pharmaceuticals. for Health Organizations clearly demonstrates how GIS technology allows physicians, insurance providers, hospitals, epidemiologists, researchers, and HMO executives to focus resources to meet the needs of those in their care.

Source: Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Author: Laura Lang

Language: English

Topic: Geographic Information Systems Studies

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W607977689

FWCI: 22.76

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Cited by: 50

Related to: 10