Quality of automatic geocoding tools: a study using addresses from hospital record files in Temuco, Chile

• Main Authors: Maria Elisa Quinteros (Author), Carola Blazquez (Author), Felipe Rosas (Author), Salvador Ayala (Author), Ximena Marcela Ossa García (Author), Juana Maria Delgado-Saborit (Author), Roy M. Harrison (Author), Pablo Ruiz-Rudolph (Author), Karla Yohannessen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract: Automatic geocoding methods have become popular in recent years, facilitating the study of the association between health outcomes and the place of living. However, rather few studies have evaluated geocoding quality, with most of them being performed in the US and Europe. This article aim...