Towards Web-based representation and processing of health information.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is great concern within health surveillance, on how to grapple with environmental degradation, rapid urbanization, population mobility and growth. The Internet has emerged as an efficient way to share health information, enabling users to access and understand data at their fingertips. Increasingly complex problems in the health field require increasingly sophisticated computer software, distributed computing power, and standardized data sharing. To address this need, Web-based mapping is now emerging as an important tool to enable health practitioners, policy makers, and the public to understand spatial health risks, population health trends and vulnerabilities. Today several web-based health applications generate dynamic maps; however, for people to fully interpr

SUBMITTER: Gao S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2651125 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature