The Role of GIS in The Management of Primary Health Care Services
Authors
Escobar Martínez, Francisco JavierDate
1997Affiliation
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de GeografíaBibliographic citation
AURISA 97. The 25th Annual Conference of the Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, Christchurch, New Zealand, 19-21 November 1997
Keywords
Geographic Information Systems
Health services
Divisions of General Practice
Victoria
Data integration
Confidentiality
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
The application of Geographic Information Systems with health has been relatively slow to develop in Australia. The aim of this paper is to show the role that a GIS can
play in the management of Divisions of General Practice (GP). We are proposing to use GIS to allow data in General Practice to be analysed visually through desktop mapping
as a way of developing a Practice profile.
Most of the research projects in this area in western countries are at this stage of
development. The favourable conditions in Victoria, Australia (due to the amount of
complete digital data bases) allow us to be more ambitious. Thus the aim of the project
presented through this paper is not only to reach a visual representation of the spatial
health data but to explore the potential of GIS in the following issues:· the combination of health data with other data such as the location and characteristics of private services related with health,· spatial and thematic queries,· sophisticated spatial analyses related with the optimal distribution and location of the practitioners,· simulations regarding the actual and future demand, and · optimal routing
Two Divisions of General Practice, one in rural Victoria and one in the metropolitan
area of Melbourne, are being used in a pilot study. The data and results presented in this
paper are related to these settings.
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