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International Journal of Health Geographics BioMed Central Methodology Open Access Easier surveillance of climate-related health vulnerabilities through a Web-based spatial OLAP application 1,2 1,3,4 1 1,2 Eveline Bernier , Pierre Gosselin* , Thierry Badard and Yvan Bédard Address: 1Center for Research in Geomatics (CRG), Université Laval, Québec, Canada, 2NSERC Industrial Research Chair on Geospatial Databases for Decision Support, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, 3Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec (INSPQ), Québec, Canada and 4Ouranos, Montréal, Canada Email: Eveline Bernier - eveline.bernier@scg.ulaval.ca; Pierre Gosselin* - Pierre-L.Gosselin@crchul.ulaval.ca; Thierry Badard - thierry.badard@scg.ulaval.ca; Yvan Bédard - yvan.bedard@scg.ulaval.ca * Corresponding author Published: 3 April 2009 Received: 24 September 2008 Accepted: 3 April 2009 International Journal of Health Geographics 2009, 8:18 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-8-18 This article is available from: /content/8/1/18 © 2009 Bernier et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Climate change has a significant im