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Leveraging community health worker system to map a mountainous rural district in low resource setting: a low-cost approach to expand use of geographic information systems for public health

BACKGROUND: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become an important tool in monitoring and improving health services, particularly at local levels. However, GIS data are often unavailable in rural settings and village-level mapping is resource-intensive. This study describes the use of communi...

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Autores principales: Munyaneza, Fabien, Hirschhorn, Lisa R, Amoroso, Cheryl L, Nyirazinyoye, Laetitia, Birru, Ermyas, Mugunga, Jean Claude, Murekatete, Rachel M, Ntaganira, Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25479768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-13-49