Spatial accessibility analysis of healthcare service centers in Gamo Gofa Zone, Ethiopia through Geospatial technique

Dejen, Awlachew; Soni, Sandeep; Semaw, Fisha

doi:10.1016/j.rsase.2019.01.004

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“…In the walking scenario, only 40% of Jazan region inhabitants require less than 30 min to reach PHCs, and only 19% require less than 30 min to reach hospitals, which is consistent with the study that discovered inadequate accessibility in the walking situation [ 34 ]. This could be explained by the absence of sidewalk infrastructure in this area, resulting in restricted access to facilities, which is consistent with the findings of the previous study [ 35 ].…”

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Geographic accessibility to public dental practices in the Jazan region of Saudi Arabia

Shubayr

Kruger²,

Tennant³

2022

BMC Oral Health

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Background It is impossible to attain good general health without maintaining oral health and this becomes problematic when dental services are located far from the population that needs to utilise them. This study aimed to assess the geographic accessibility of dental clinics located in public primary healthcare clinics (PHCs) and hospitals in the Jazan region of Saudi Arabia and how long it takes to reach them by car and on foot. Methods The location of clinics and hospitals, maps of road systems, and the governorates' borders (administrative areas) within the Jazan region were downloaded using the QGIS mapping tool. The time taken to travel to the clinics and hospitals, either by driving or walking, was assessed. If the time was 30 min or less, residents in the area were classified as ‘serviced’. It was more than 30 min, they were ‘underserved’. Results Only 31% of Jazan residents were found to live in a serviced area if they drove to clinics and hospitals. Residents of Jazan's seven mountainous governorates were more likely to require services. Only 40% could drive less than 30 min to a primary health dental clinic. Only 19% of people could walk to a hospital in less than 30 min. Only two governorates had a majority of residents who lived in serviced areas. Conclusion The study demonstrates an accessibility issue, as many Jazan inhabitants must drive or walk for an extended period (> 30 min) to reach a healthcare facility, whether a primary health care centre or a hospital. This issue may result in many people not receiving necessary health care, compromising their oral health status. Additional research is needed to identify public, private and other health facilities in the region and the prevalence of oral disease.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Geographic accessibility to public dental practices in the Jazan region of Saudi Arabia

Shubayr

Kruger²,

Tennant³

2022

BMC Oral Health

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“…(1) specify the adjacent search area or range, (2) search for points located in the adjacent area, (3) choose mathematical functions that express the spatial variation of these finite points, and (4) assign values to data points belonging to ordinary grid cells. Reset the operation of this step until all points on the grid are mapped [19].…”

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confidence: 99%

Evolution of Regional Economic Spatial Structure Based on IoT and GIS Service

Lei

2021

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Unbalanced regional development is an inevitable trend in the development of all countries in the world. The rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology has created tools for the study of regional development issues. IoT has many advantages and thus owns a very wide range of applications. This paper makes use of geographic information system (GIS) technology, which can be viewed as one of the IoT sensing information. Changes in spatial regional economic differences and space and the evolution of the structure are particularly examined by processing spatial information such as maps, analyzing phenomena and events that exist on the earth, and exploiting Kriging and inverse distance weighting (IDW). The numerical results in this paper justify that the introduction of GIS technology to the study of economic diversity can upgrade regional economic research from a traditional qualitative and statistical level to a quantitative and spatial visualization level.

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“…Reference [144] highlights that GIS, taken together with non-spatial factors, is being used increasingly in healthcare. Discussing the role of GIS in healthcare, the examples of the use of GIS include those concerned with improving the quality of care [145], analyzing the spatial distribution of diseases [146][147][148], planning and assessing location-based services [149,150], enhancing the accessibility of services [151,152]. Section 1 of Reference [150] investigates the role of GIS in disease mapping and spatial analysis.…”

Section: Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey of GIS and IoT Integration: Applications and Architecture

2021

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IoT, as an emerging technology along with GIS, can result in advanced and user-friendly features in Smart Cities. In order to investigate the capabilities offered by these technologies, this paper provides an overview of GIS and IoT integration focusing on applications and architecture. Specifically, this paper starts with investigating the role of GIS and IoT separately and jointly in different domains. Then, a review of GIS and IoT integration studies is provided to examine how GIS could be used in IoT architecture. The results showed that the capabilities of GIS in dealing with geospatial data and attributes along with offering visualization and analyzing tools make it possible to develop an integrated system benefiting from real-time data collection and real-time monitoring provided by IoT. The presented details would assist researchers in future studies on utilizing GIS and IoT at the same time.

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Spatial accessibility analysis of healthcare service centers in Gamo Gofa Zone, Ethiopia through Geospatial technique

Cited by 17 publications

References 24 publications

Geographic accessibility to public dental practices in the Jazan region of Saudi Arabia

Geographic accessibility to public dental practices in the Jazan region of Saudi Arabia

Evolution of Regional Economic Spatial Structure Based on IoT and GIS Service

A Survey of GIS and IoT Integration: Applications and Architecture

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