Public health practitioners can use location-based information to securely track pandemics, analyze trends, and monitor population health, thereby improving the health of Canadians.
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Fun with GeoRSS
If you know what RSS is, GeoRSS is a logical step forward. ... GeoRSS adds a few tags to RSS that hold spatial data.
Related Links
- Canadian Network for Public Health Intelligence
- The New Brunswick Lung Association, Environmental-health Mapping Project
- Canadian Health Infoway
- Public Health Agency of Canada,
- West Nile Virus Surveillance Information
- FluWatch
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Public Health Practice
- Security and Privacy of Electronic Health Information: Risk Assessment Expert System
Resources & Tools
Success Story
HealthNet Offers Bird's Eye View of West Nile Virus
the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) recently developed a web-mapping application to better track and analyze the locations of dead birds infected with the West Nile Virus.
GEOIDE Market Intelligence Portal
A new section is now available on the GEOIDE website: the GEOIDE Market
Intelligence Portal (English only). This
section is opened to everyone (member and non member) who is interested of having the latest news from the geospatial industry,
From The Economist: The World on your Desktop
As the internet becomes intertwined with the real world, the resulting "geoweb" has many uses. Read The Economist's September 2007 report on the geoweb...