Paper Info
Title
Geospatial information infrastructures to address spatial needs in health: Collaboration, challenges and opportunities.
Abstract
Most health-related issues such as public health outbreaks and epidemiological threats are better understood from a spatial-temporal perspective and, clearly demand related geospatial datasets and services so that decision makers may jointly make informed decisions and coordinate response plans. Although current health applications support a kind of geospatial features, these are still disconnected from the wide range of geospatial services and datasets that geospatial information infrastructures may bring into health. In this paper we are questioning the hypothesis whether geospatial information infrastructures, in terms of standards-based geospatial services, technologies, and data models as operational assets already in place, can be exploited by health applications for which the geospatial dimension is of great importance. This may be certainly addressed by defining better collaboration strategies to uncover and promote geospatial assets to the health community. We discuss the value of collaboration, as well as the opportunities that geographic information infrastructures offer to address geospatial challenges in health applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.future.2013.04.002
Future Generation Comp. Syst.
Keywords
Field
DocType
standards-based geospatial service,geospatial datasets,geospatial asset,geospatial service,current health application,geospatial feature,geospatial dimension,spatial need,geospatial information infrastructure,geospatial challenge,health application
Geospatial analysis,Public health,Data science,Data modeling,Computer science,Knowledge management,Geographic information systems in geospatial intelligence
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
31
0167-739X
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
33
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carlos Granell133628.70
íscar Belmonte Fernández260.49
Laura Díaz319814.28