Injury surveillance in low-resource settings using Geospatial and Social Web technologies
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Injury surveillance in low-resource settings using Geospatial and Social Web technologies
BACKGROUND Extensive public health gains have benefited high-income countries in recent decades, however, citizens of low and middle-income countries (LMIC) have largely not enjoyed the same advancements. This is in part due to the fact that public health data - the foundation for public health advances - are rarely collected in many LMIC. Injury data are particularly scarce in many low-resourc...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Health Geographics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1476-072X
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072x-9-25