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

Objectives: The application of GIS in health science has increased over the last decade and
new innovative application areas have emerged. This study reviews the literature and builds …

Background Cost containment typically involves rationalizing healthcare service delivery
through centralization of services to achieve economies of scale. Hospitals are frequently …

Geographic information systems (GIS) can be used to map the geographical distribution of
the prevalence of disease, trends in disease transmission, and to spatially model …

This paper considers the problem of deriving realistic access measures between population
demand and health service locations, in the context of a rural region of England. The paper …

Recently there has been growing interest both to extend ILP to description logics and to
apply it to knowledge discovery in databases. In this paper we present a novel approach to …

This Methodolical Review describes how health geomatics can improve our understanding
of the important relationship between location and health, and thus assist us in Public Health …

In this paper we draw on the existing literature to highlight the gap between academic health-
based applications of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and their everyday use within …

Background Brucellosis is one of the most challenging health issues in many developing
countries including Iran. The purpose of this study is to investigate the incidence and …

Access to health care is key to well-being, and it is increasingly clear that aggregated
accessibility analysis is hard to reflect people's actual healthcare behaviour. This paper …