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T1 The Role of GIS in The Management of Primary Health Care Services
A1 Escobar Martínez, Francisco Javier
A1 Williamson, Ian
A1 Waters, Elizabeth
A1 Green, Julie
A1 Hugo, Graeme
A1 Rudd, Chris
K1 Geographic Information Systems
K1 Health services
K1 Divisions of General Practice
K1 Victoria
K1 Data integration
K1 Confidentiality
K1 Geografía
K1 Geography
AB 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 canplay 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 mappingas a way of developing a Practice profile.Most of the research projects in this area in western countries are at this stage ofdevelopment. The favourable conditions in Victoria, Australia (due to the amount ofcomplete digital data bases) allow us to be more ambitious. Thus the aim of the projectpresented through this paper is not only to reach a visual representation of the spatialhealth 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 routingTwo Divisions of General Practice, one in rural Victoria and one in the metropolitanarea of Melbourne, are being used in a pilot study. The data and results presented in thispaper are related to these settings.
YR 1997
FD 1997
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/6822
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/6822
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 03-may-2024