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Key Terms<\/h3>\r\nGeographic information system (GIS):\u00a0<\/strong> A computer system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage and present all types of geographical data. The acronym GIS is sometimes used for geographical information science or geospatial information studies to refer to the academic discipline or career of working with geographic information systems and is a large domain within the broader academic discipline of geoinformatics.\r\n\r\nIntersectionality:<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0An approach that prioritizes\u00a0the\u00a0interrelationships of gender, class, race and ethnicity and other social divisions and seeks to understand how power relations structure these relationships.\r\n\r\nMobile health (mHealth):\u00a0<\/strong> The\u00a0emerging field of\u00a0the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices. mHealth can be used for data collection for monitoring patients, informing diagnosis, organizing electronic medical records and for data dissemination by presenting health care resources, recommendations and education from doctors to patients using mobile devices.\r\n\r\nPublic health surveillance:\u00a0<\/strong>The collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of data on public health issues and its social and environmental determinants.\r\n\r\nRight to health:<\/strong> A concept, which Health Canada and all provincial health services ascribe to, that was set out in the United Nations Universal Declaration\u00a0of Human Rights, incorporated in 1948.\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/em>Social determinants of health:<\/strong> Those things that influence the levels of health experienced by populations.\u00a0 These determinants include income levels and social status, social support networks, education, employment\/working conditions, social environments, physical environments, personal health practices and coping skills, healthy child development, gender and culture.\r\n\r\nSpatial e<\/strong>pidemiology:\u00a0<\/strong>The study of patterns, causes and effects of health and diseases among certain populations.\r\n\r\nTelehealth:<\/strong> Technical applications that allow physicians to provide care at a distance;\u00a0a promising and unique means to provide health care and health education to dispersed populations.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n ","rendered":"
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Key Terms<\/h3>\n

Geographic information system (GIS):\u00a0<\/strong> A computer system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage and present all types of geographical data. The acronym GIS is sometimes used for geographical information science or geospatial information studies to refer to the academic discipline or career of working with geographic information systems and is a large domain within the broader academic discipline of geoinformatics.<\/p>\n

Intersectionality:<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0An approach that prioritizes\u00a0the\u00a0interrelationships of gender, class, race and ethnicity and other social divisions and seeks to understand how power relations structure these relationships.<\/p>\n

Mobile health (mHealth):\u00a0<\/strong> The\u00a0emerging field of\u00a0the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices. mHealth can be used for data collection for monitoring patients, informing diagnosis, organizing electronic medical records and for data dissemination by presenting health care resources, recommendations and education from doctors to patients using mobile devices.<\/p>\n

Public health surveillance:\u00a0<\/strong>The collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of data on public health issues and its social and environmental determinants.<\/p>\n

Right to health:<\/strong> A concept, which Health Canada and all provincial health services ascribe to, that was set out in the United Nations Universal Declaration\u00a0of Human Rights, incorporated in 1948.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Social determinants of health:<\/strong> Those things that influence the levels of health experienced by populations.\u00a0 These determinants include income levels and social status, social support networks, education, employment\/working conditions, social environments, physical environments, personal health practices and coping skills, healthy child development, gender and culture.<\/p>\n

Spatial e<\/strong>pidemiology:\u00a0<\/strong>The study of patterns, causes and effects of health and diseases among certain populations.<\/p>\n

Telehealth:<\/strong> Technical applications that allow physicians to provide care at a distance;\u00a0a promising and unique means to provide health care and health education to dispersed populations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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