Geospatial Analysis of Health Facilities in Urban Areas (A Case Study of Dehradun City)

By : Upendra Bhai Patel , B.L. Teli

Page No: 60-71

Abstract
Human resource is always of immense support for a developing country like India. Even though our country is saturated with 121 crore population, not many are overlooking the safer life of an individual, and GIS is as an advanced decision making tool, could help in better need based planning for the healthcare services that would result in high impact interventions not just at the national level but also at the district and block levels. This study will be pointed out that the knowledge gap needs to be addressed which would mean GIS sensitization of management till the panchayat level and capacity building to ensure availability of technical manpower.
Nowadays, time is considered as valuable as gold. Once time is used sensibly, access to a lot of opportunities is possible. People, who want to go to Hospitals/Clinics in different places as patient, may need to have some information about those places (Hospitals/Clinics). Determining the shortest routes to the healthcare places from their accommodations will be both timesaving and economical. Geographical Information System (GIS) Technologies provide us with these possibilities. But transportation of a patient to hospital in emergency seems quite simple but in reality it is pretty difficult during peak hours. A significant operation for the handling of emergency incidents is the routing of responding vehicles to incident sites and then to the closest appropriate hospitals. GIS technology can support emergency responders to provide efficient response in quick response time through solving the steering problems.
The study was carried out on Dehradun city, where there are an optimum healthcare facilities with a large inflow of men/women and tourist both foreign and domestic. GIS Database was created using Cartosat-1 & LISS-IV satellite data and ancillary information. GIS based Network analysis was carried out by taking advantages of GIS possibilities for healthcare facilities. Shortest path in terms of time and length were carried out using Network Analyst of ArcGIS. ArcGIS Server was used for configuring, publishing and web services application. Assessment of wards which lack in higher order hospitals was carried out.

Authors :
Upendra Bhai Patel and B.L. Teli
Dept. of Geography, School of Earth Sciences. HNB Garhwal University (A Central University) BGR Campus Pauri. Pauri -Garhwal, Uttarakhand-246001.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2018.38.01.5