Geographic Information Systems and Human Services

Hoefer, Richard; Hoefer, Regina Morgan; Tobias, Ruth Anne

doi:10.1300/j125v01n03_08

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“…The use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) mapping expands the avenues by which social work practitioners can design, implement, and evaluate programs (Hoefer, Hoefer, & Tobias, 1994). However, the provision of educational opportunities tailored to the needs of social work practitioners is necessary if the profession is to take full advantage of the potential of GIS.…”

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Technology-Based Approaches to Social Work and Social Justice

Dunlop

Fawcett²

2008

Journal of Policy Practice

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Technology-Based Approaches to Social Work and Social Justice

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Fawcett²

2008

Journal of Policy Practice

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“…This involves examining a series of spatial issues identified as important in strategy documents (East Sussex Health Authority, 1995;East Sussex County Council, 1999). These issues include location, access, gaps & omissions, amount and utilisation of services, specialist provision, the spatial distribution of demand and supply and projections of future demand (Joseph & Phillips, 1984;Gesler, 1986;Hoefer et al, 1994). The quality and cost of services was also a significant factor for both general and more specific spatial aspects of planning (Chisholm, 1995;Foley & Frost, 1996;Lindsay, 1996;Netten, 1996).…”

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Assessing the applicability of GIS in a health and social care setting: planning services for informal carers in East Sussex, England

Foley

2002

Social Science & Medicine

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Informal carers save the state's health and social care services billions of pounds each year. The stresses associated with caring have given rise to a number of short-term care services to provide respite to carers. The Carers (Recognition & Services) Act of 1995 identified formally for the first time, the important role that unpaid carers provide across the community in Britain. The planning of combined health and social care services such as short-term care is a less developed application of geographical information systems (GIS) and this paper examines awareness and application issues associated with the potential use of GIS to manage short-term care service planning for informal carers in East Sussex. The assessment of GIS awareness was carried out by using a semi-structured questionnaire approach and interviewing key local managers and planners across a number of agencies. GIS data was gathered from the agencies and developed within a GIS to build up a set of spatial databases of available services, location of users and additional geo-demographic and topographic information. The output from this system development was presented in turn at workshops with agencies associated with short-term care planning as well as users to help assess their perspectives on the potential use and value of GIS. A renewed emphasis on a planned approach to health care coupled with integrated/ joint working with social care creates a need for new approaches to planning. The feedback from planners and users, suggested that a number of key data elements attached to data-sharing may prove to be simultaneously progressive yet problematic, especially in the areas of ethics, confidentiality and informed consent. A critical response to the suitability of GIS as a tool to aid joint health and social care approaches is incorporated within a final summary. r

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“…GIS is the "merging of cartography, statistical analysis, and database technology, digitally creating and "manipulates" spatial areas that may be jurisdictional, purpose, or application-oriented" (Hoefer, Hoefer, & Tobias, 1994).…”

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“…One example of the construction and use of a neighborhood GIS is found for the city of Urbana, Illinois as a prototype (Talen & Shah, 2007). Participants of this study were encouraged to interact with the GIS along with study coordinators, and to respond to several questions about their neighborhood, thus facilitating with the creation of the GIS map (Hoefer, et al, 1994;Talen & Shah, 2007).…”

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“…One study used paper maps to visualize the impact of poverty, education, crime rates, and unemployment for the city of Rockford, IL; the authors remarked that this was a cumbersome task, could have been made more manageable with the use of GIS (Hoefer, et al, 1994). Along with the GIS' technical advantages, GIS is being increasingly used as a policy and decision making tool for community planning (Ammerman, 1997).…”

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