GIS Improves Surveillance, Helps Prepare for Public Health Threats
Discover how public health authorities can effectively monitor disease outbreaks while tracking environmental health indicators.
Though Canadians are healthier and living longer than ever, there are several health challenges: leading deaths from chronic disease and injury, growing numbers of obese people and high asthma rates. Discover how public health authorities in Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) in Ontario effectively monitor disease outbreaks while tracking environmental health indicators with web-based technology. Read this article published in Canadian Healthcare Technology.