Using GIS to Identify Opportunities for Improved Health in Urban Slums
The Applied Case of Midnapore, India
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Beschreibung
This book offers geospatial modelling techniques for the analysis of healthcare in poor urban neighborhoods and of the ways that residents of these neighborhoods make healthcare choices and cope with deprivation. The authors use the case of Midnapore, India to explore the overall health infrastructure and the perceptions of residents of urban slums regarding the provision, utilization, and accessibility of the healthcare system through the application of geostatistics and geospatial techniques and modelling, with an eye towards reducing inequalities.
The study described here can be used as a model for researchers, planners, NGOs, policymakers and government authorities to conduct similar analysis of other low-income urban neighborhoods. Also, this book may assist students in understanding the basic tools and techniques of applying GIS tools to study social problems.
This book offers geospatial modelling techniques for the analysis of healthcare in poor urban neighborhoods and of the ways that residents of these neighborhoods make healthcare choices and cope with deprivation. The authors use the case of Midnapore, India to explore the overall health infrastructure and the perceptions of residents of urban slums regarding the provision, utilization, and accessibility of the healthcare system through the application of geostatistics and geospatial techniques and modelling, with an eye towards reducing inequalities.
The study described here can be used as a model for researchers, planners, NGOs, policymakers and government authorities to conduct similar analysis of other low-income urban neighborhoods. Also, this book may assist students in understanding the basic tools and techniques of applying GIS tools to study social problems.
Offers an extended case study in using GIS to study healthcare provision in an economically deprived neighborhood Explores how slum residents cope with lack of access to healthcare and healthcare facilities Applies geospatial methods to study social problems
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Bikash Dutta
Themen in »Using GIS to Identify Opportunities for Improved Health in Urban Slums«
GIS for health Urban slums Spatial accessibility Primary healthcare Multi-criteria decision making Multidimensional poverty index Social deprivation Quality of life