Geoprocessing in health area Geoprocesamiento aplicado en el área de salud Geoprocessamento aplicado à área da saúde

• Main Authors: Paula Hino (Author), Tereza Cristina Scatena Villa (Author), Cinthia Midori Sassaki (Author), Jordana de Almeida Nogueira (Author), Claudia Benedita dos Santos (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2006-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The map's usage and the concerns about geographic distribution related with diseases are not a recent issue. A classical example is the John Snow survey -maps were used to locate cholera's cases and related them with the water supplying. The spatial representation techniques are fewer used...