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Community-based public health: an Online Decision Support Systems : for Logan city, Australia
Gudes, Ori; Kendall, Elizabeth; Yigitcanlar, Tan; … - 2009
Introduction Among the many requirements of establishing community health, a healthy urban environment stands out as significant one. A healthy urban environment constantly changes and improves community well-being and expands community resources. The promotion efforts for such an environment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437917
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Harnessing ICT-based tool for improving the collaborative health planning debate : the case of Logan-Beaudesert, Australia
Gudes, Ori; Kendall, Elizabeth; Yigitcanlar, Tan; … - 2010
information communication technology (ICT) tools including geographic information systems (GIS) that provide the mechanisms to … that has been adopted to develop an online GIS-based DSS for health planners. The literature states that the overall aim of … minimizing judgmental biases. For this reason, the paper examines the effectiveness and impact of an innovative online GIS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438092
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Identifying rural disadvantage using a multiday travel diary
Kamruzzaman, Md.; Hine, Julian - 2010
relative performance in terms of these different indices and identify the nature of transport disadvantage. GIS was used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438272
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PROTECTED HORTICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT. AN INTEGRAL DECISION MODEL FOR GREENHOUSE WASTE MANAGEMENT IN SOUTHEASTERN SPAIN
Gomez, Salvador Parra - 2008
recyclingprocess, to the tune of 4082777 € and 4794566 €, respectively. Likewise, a Geographical InformationSystem (GIS) has been used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443256
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USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY AND ACCURACY OF A UTILITY’S NETWORK DATA COLLECTION BUSINESS PROCESS
Van Olst, Rex - 2007
“You can see the computer age everywhere except in the productivity statistics”. Thisoffhand remark by Robert Solow, the Nobel prize-winning economist [1] has stimulatedmany other economists to conduct more rigorous analyses on the impact of informationtechnology on productivity.The research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447815
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Modeling the Dynamics of Desakota Regions: Global - Local Nexus in the Taipei Metropolitan Area
Sui, Daniel (contributor) - 2009
, this study develops a GIS-based CA framework based on the desakota model to not only simulate the unique urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464859
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Enabling Sustainability: Hierarchical Need-Based Framework for Promoting Sustainable Data Infrastructure in Developing Countries
Yawson, David O.; Armah, Frederick A.; Pappoe, Alex N.M. - 2009
"The paper presents thoughts on Sustainable Data Infrastructure (SDI)development, and its user requirements bases. It brings Maslow's motivational theory to the fore, and proposes it as a rationalization mechanism for entities (mostly governmental) that aim at realizing SDI. Maslow's theory,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468387
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Incorporating Geographic Information Systems into the Development of Diabetes Programs in Ohio
Box, Klara - 2009
care providers to identify where intervention programs are needed. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a mapping tool … GIS in order to identify where in Ohio DM intervention programs would be most effective. Sample: All Ohio counties (n=88 …). Procedure: Demographic and health data from the Ohio Department of Health was geocoded using GIS software. Measures include DM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475172
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Spatial forecasting of residential urban fires: A Bayesian approach
Rohde, David; Corcoran, Jonathan; Chhetri, Prem - 2010
The application of GIS-based techniques to analyse incident data such as crime has received a relatively large amount …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448825
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Detecting Spatiotemporal Clusters of Accidental Poisoning Mortality among Texas Counties, U.S., 1980-2001
Hsu, Chiehwen Ed - 2004
and risk according to gender and race/ethnicity. The Spatial Scan Statistic in combination with GIS software was used to … mortality by place, time and person, this study demonstrates the utility of the spatial scan statistic combined with GIS and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450779