INTERNET SEARCH OF ARTICLES CONCERNING THE GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to find relevant
scientific articles about geographic information systems,
(GIS) published in medical literature. Due to the fact that,
today we assist at an exponential development of the
available medical information, I chose PubMed as the
search engine and the study period of time between 1990
and 2007. 610 articles about GIS resulted from this
research. I analysed each article or abstract; I drew up a
database, which also included the place where the study
was developed, the public health area concerned in the
study and the geographical covering area. This paper
also presents a descriptive statistics of the published
materials, according to the mentioned criteria and
proposals for applying GIS in Romania as well, based on
the results obtained abroad.
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