Journal article
Mapping health on the Internet: A new tool for environmental justice and public health research
Abstract
This paper examines the prospects for integrating Internet platform GIS or 'web-GIS' into environmental justice and related public health research. Specifically, we document the development of a web-GIS created for investigating relationships between health, air quality and socioeconomic factors in Hamilton, Canada. After development of the web-GIS site, we assembled a focus group of public health professionals to test functionality and render …
Authors
Maclachlan JC; Jerrett M; Abernathy T; Sears M; Bunch MJ
Journal
Health & Place, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 72–86
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
March 2007
DOI
10.1016/j.healthplace.2005.09.012
ISSN
1353-8292