Foley, Ronan, Charlton, Martin and Fotheringham, Stewart (2009) GIS in Health and Social Care Planning. In: Handbook of Theoretical and Quantitative Geography. UNIL-FGSE-Workshop series (2). Univ. de Lausanne-Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement, Lausanne, pp. 73-115. ISBN 9782940368082
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Abstract
The application of GIS and GI science approaches within health and social care has
been an established area for research for over twenty years. The chapter identifies
core theoretical concerns with topics such as: supply, demand, need and choice in
health care, and examines some of the ways in which these notions have been
modeled quantitatively in applied settings. In addition, summaries are provided of
previous research in the sub-themes of accessibility & utilization, health inequalities,
location-allocation modeling, epidemiology, service planning and health informatics.
The second part of the chapter examines three research case studies carried out by
the authors in the UK and Ireland around the areas of: a) cross-border hospital
accessibility, b) geographically-weighted regression modeling of illness data and, c)
the planning of social care services. The final section identifies some future directions
for work under the wider headings of spatial data, analysis and visualization
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Additional Information: | Preprint version of original published chapter. |
Keywords: | Health care; Social care; modeling; spatial data; visualisation; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
Item ID: | 2990 |
Depositing User: | Dr. Ronan Foley |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2012 11:49 |
Publisher: | Univ. de Lausanne-Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement |
Refereed: | No |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/2990 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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