Geographical Information Systems and Health

Year 2022, Volume: 39 Issue: 1, 311 - 312, 01.01.2022

Kadir Şahbaz Abuzer Özkan

Abstract

GIS is an information system that performs the functions of collecting, storing, analyzing, and presenting graphical and non-graphical data obtained through location-based processes in an integrity. It is a set of hardware, software, personnel, geographic data, and methods developed to assist users in location-based decision-making processes for solving complex social, economic, and environmental problems around the world.

Keywords

Geographical Information Systems, Health, Health care

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