Establishing spatially-enabled health registry systems using implicit spatial data pools: case study – Uganda

Establishing spatially-enabled health registry systems using implicit spatial data pools: case study – Uganda

Abstract Background Spatial epidemiological analyses primarily depend on spatially-indexed medical records. Some countries have devised ways of capturing patient-specific spatial details using ZIP codes, postcodes or personal numbers, which are geocoded. However, for most resource-constrained Africa...

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Main Authors: Augustus Aturinde, Nakasi Rose, Mahdi Farnaghi, Gilbert Maiga, Petter Pilesjö, Ali Mansourian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Subjects:
Spatially-enabled health registry
SDI
RESTful web services
Spatial epidemiology
Mobile-GIS
Uganda
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-019-0949-y

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