Geographic Access to Burn Center Hospitals

Exploratory Access to Geographic Data

Many geographic information systems (GISs) attempt to imitate the manual process of laying transparent map layers over one another on a light table and analyzing the resulting configurations. While this map-overlay metaphor, familiar to many geo-scientists, has been used as a design principle for the underlying architecture of GISs, it has not yet been visually manifested at the user interface....

Addressing geographic access barriers to emergency care services: a national ecologic study of hospitals in Brazil

BACKGROUND Unequal distribution of emergency care services is a critical barrier to be overcome to assure access to emergency and surgical care. Considering this context it was objective of the present work analyze geographic access barriers to emergency care services in Brazil. A secondary aim of the study is to define possible roles to be assumed by small hospitals in the Brazilian healthcare...

Burn injury in Mottahari Burn Center in Tehran, Iran

Access to Geographic Information: A European Perspective

This article is offered to stimulate the formulation of a cross-Atlantic research agenda on access to geographic information. The article is organized in four sections. The first sets the context for the article. The second reviews at some length recent developments in Europe in relation to access to public sector information and the development of the Information Society. The geographic inform...

Burn injury in Mottahari Burn Center in Tehran, Iran

DEAR EDITOR Burn is one of the devastating conditions in emergency medicine resulting into physical and psychological disabilities.1 During pregnancy, it has an increasing trend for mortality and morbidity of both mother and infant.2 So practical activities to decrease its physical and emotional complications seem mandatory.2 For survivors, the most persisting problem is scarring while healing ...