Exploring the role of GIS during community health assessment problem solving: experiences of public health professionals

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A Community health assessment (CHA) involves the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in conjunction with other software to analyze health and population data and perform numerical-spatial problem solving. There has been littl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Scotch Matthew, Parmanto Bambang, Gadd Cynthia S, Sharma Ravi K
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-09-01
Series:International Journal of Health Geographics
Online Access:http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/5/1/39