International Journal of Health Geographics

International Journal of Health Geographics

http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/home/

Publisher:  Biomed Central

International Journal of Health Geographics is a journal that is listed 
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International Journal of Health Geographics is the first peer-reviewed 
journal dedicated to the application of GIS and science in public 
health, healthcare, health services, and health resources. It is an 
interdisciplinary journal covering a wide, but well-focused range of 
topics, and is thus expected to attract audiences from many different 
fields.

Manuscripts are invited which deal with/report research into: 

-The management and effective communication of geographical knowledge 
and information required by health systems users and healthcare 
professionals; 
-Barriers facing the adoption of GIS technology in the health sector, 
including data availability, data/metadata quality issues, security, 
confidentiality and ethical issues, and "spatial illiteracy" among 
healthcare workers; 
-Relevant standards and technological advances in the context of health 
and healthcare; 
-Geographic Information Science and the Internet, e.g. online GIS data 
warehouses and Internet mapping servers, in the context of health and 
healthcare; 
-Mobile GIS and location-based services in the context of health and data 
warehouses and Internet mapping servers, in the context of health and 
healthcare; 
-Mobile GIS and location-based services in the context of health and 
healthcare; and 
-Cybergeography in the context of health and healthcare, including 
geographics and demographics of cybermedicine, and mapping conceptual 
health spaces and their semantics, e.g. spatialized browsing of health 
information repositories. 

ISSN: 1476-072X 

Editors-in-Chief: Richard E Hoskins
                  Maged N Kamel Boulos  email: mkamel@medicad.com