GIS in Healthcare

• Other Authors: Faruque, Fazlay S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; GIS; urban health; health clusters; kernel density; hotspot analysis; healthcare planning; health geomatics; public health; emergency medical facilities; traffic jam; megacity; network-based location-allocation model; Beijing; healthcare critical infrastructure; geovisualization; geographic information system; colored petri net; COVID-19; social media data; sina weibo; spatiotemporal characteristics; automated external defibrillator; public access defibrillation; out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; resuscitation; risk mapping; geographical accessibility; local scale; municipality; healthcare services; spatial planning; decentralization; usability assessment; web GIS; cancer; service area; geospatial health; spatial disparities; accessibility; subway expansion; public transport network; cross-border cooperation; geographic information systems; Iberian borderland; strategic planning; sustainable planning; disaster preparedness; smart cities; sustainable cities; food desert; regression analysis
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The landscape of healthcare is dynamic, gradually becoming more complicated with factors beyond simple supply and demand. Similar to the diversity of social, political and economic contexts, the practical utilization of healthcare resources also varies around the world. However, the spatial componen...