The increasing availability of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in health
organisations, together with the proliferation of spatially disaggregate data, has led to a …

Abstract The term" Geographic Information Systems"(GIS) has been added to MeSH in 2003,
a step reflecting the importance and growing use of GIS in health and healthcare research …

In the modern metropolis, the coverage of community hospitals is getting larger and larger.
But high-level hospitals treating serious and sudden illness are still kind of scarce social …

Social infrastructure requires a consistent and measurable definition and more evidence is
needed to demonstrate why it is important to health, wellbeing and the liveability of a …

This, the second of my short reports into aspects of the current state of medical geography,
concentrates on the themes of 'care'and 'caring'with respect to health and illness. This …

Containing method descriptions and step-by-step procedures, the Spatial Epidemiological
Approaches in Disease Mapping and Analysis equips readers with skills to prepare health …

针对农村医疗设施空间分布的公平性问题, 提出了使用GIS 技术和空间可达性指标评估医疗设施
的区域分布特征. 以兰考县乡级以上卫生院为例, 建立人口分布, 医疗设施位置 …

Decisions on the location and size of medical departments in a given hospital network are
prime examples of priority setting in health care, which is an issue of growing political …

We applied cartographic and geostatistical methods in analyzing the patterns of disease
spread during the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Hong Kong …

Healthcare accessibility and site suitability analysis is an elongated and complex task that
requires evaluation of different decision factors. The main objective of the present study was …