Rojas C, Torres C, Manterola C, Lüders C

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ABSTRACT

Information management is important for health institutions. Therefore, as the objective, information products obtained from a georeferenced information system are examined, using as an example the spatial distribution of people bitten by dogs in the city of Temuco, to show useful products for decision making. Information products associated with its geographic component allow the visualization of environmental elements that classic products such as reports make difficult to represent. Using a geo-referenced information system and satellite images, we can indicate that there are two areas of high concentration of people bitten by dogs: Pedro De Valdivia and Pueblo Nuevo, with 36.8% and 1.4% respectively. We can also evaluate the events of particular interest associated with the fixed sources of information and determine the environmental components involved. Finally, using data based on a geo-referenced information system, multiple information products can be generated that will be dependent on the information needs required. Geo-referenced information systems are very helpful tools in responding to the increasingly demanding needs for immediate, economic and simple information products. The products obtained through georeferenced information systems allow epidemiologists to consolidate and to integrate information, to know the distribution and density, as well as to perform the analyses according to the needs required by the events of pathological interest and that are summarized by monitoring, control and possible eradication.