Growing interest in use of geographic information systems in health and healthcare research: a review of PubMed from 2003 to 2011.
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Summary, in Swedish
Abstract in Undetermined
There has been an increasing interest in applying
GIS into health and healthcare research in recent
years.4,5 However, this increasing interest has not
yet been gauged. In order to address this, the current
study was performed to examine the crude
number and the annual rate of papers with
‘Geographic Information Systems’ among their
MeSH Terms in PubMed (a free database which is
maintained by US National Library of Medicine).
There has been an increasing interest in applying
GIS into health and healthcare research in recent
years.4,5 However, this increasing interest has not
yet been gauged. In order to address this, the current
study was performed to examine the crude
number and the annual rate of papers with
‘Geographic Information Systems’ among their
MeSH Terms in PubMed (a free database which is
maintained by US National Library of Medicine).
Department/s
Publishing year
2013
Language
English
Publication/Series
JRSM short reports
Volume
4
Issue
6
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Topic
- Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Keywords
- geographical information systems (GIS)
- MeSH (Medical Subject Headings
- health and healthcare research
- EAT
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2042-5333