GIS and health care

SL McLafferty - Annual review of public health, 2003 - annualreviews.org
GIS-based analysis of health care. The first section examines GIS research on analyzing
need for health care… at how GIS is being used to study geographical access to health services …

Issues of healthcare planning and GIS: a review

BF Khashoggi, A Murad - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 - mdpi.com
… in the digital period, and the discovery of geographic computational methods, analysis of
spatial data for health care service locations has been enhanced, assessment of various …

A literature review of the use of GIS-based measures of access to health care services

G Higgs - Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 2004 - Springer
… to health care services. The main aim of this paper is to review the use of GIS-based measures
in exploring the relationship between geographic access, utilisation, quality and health

Why public health needs GIS: a methodological overview

F Wang - Annals of GIS, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… After controlling for individual attributes, zip-code-level socioeconomic characteristics
and spatial access to health care, they find that late-stage cancer risks for four major types of …

[PDF][PDF] Accessibility of health care institutions: a case study by using GIS

K Fatih, IO EGRESI - Int J, 2013 - academia.edu
… of health care institutions, … GIS has provided valuable tools for the measurement of
geographical accessibility. In this study, we use GIS tools to investigate the accessibility of health

Disease and health care geographies: Mapping trends and patterns in a GIS

YN Photis - Health Science Journal, 2016 - search.proquest.com
… As an indicative case study we analyze and evaluate the Greek Public Health Care System
during the 1997 - 2007 decade. More specifically, health care supply, demand and service …

[PDF][PDF] Health and health care applications

A Gatrell, M Senior - Geographical Information systems: Principles …, 1999 - Citeseer
… of any health care system, and this section reviews case studies that have used GIS to help
… of, say, heart disease in certain areas, health care planners will wish to address this spatial …

[PDF][PDF] Using GIS to measure physical accessibility to health care

M Black, S Ebener, PN Aguilar, M Vidaurre… - World Health …, 2004 - researchgate.net
… The objective of this project is to assess the use of GIS to improve the measurement of
physical access to health care. This investigation has led to the development of a GIS based …

[HTML][HTML] Health based geographic information systems (GIS) and their applications

EC Fradelos, IV Papathanasiou, D Mitsi… - Acta Informatica …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… The planning of domiciliary care provision is one of the most active applications of GIS. A
Geographic Information System is able to organize all the routes that a health care professional …

[PDF][PDF] GIS in healthcare planning: a case study of Varanasi, India

PK Rai, MS Nathawat - Forum geografic, 2013 - forumgeografic.ro
… The objective of this paper is to examine the relevance of Geographical information system
(GIS) supporting health planners for a district level healthcare planning. For this purpose, an …