Spatial Access to Healthcare Facilities: A Case Study of Gandhinagar District Hospital
Author(s)
Kumar V, Tripathi T
Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, GJ, India
Description: One of the most important variables in the preservation and promotion of societal health is the availability of healthcare facilities and services. The process of getting access to health care involves a number of variables, including the availability and cost of health care, the area and ease of access to the healthcare facilities, and supporting infrastructure like pharmacies, communication networks, among others. So far, acceptability and cost have been used as glasses through which to view access to health treatments. However, there are situations when a health center's location and service area can play a significant role in determining how easy it to receive healthcare.
Lessons Learned: The index will provide straightforward figure to monitor healthcare accessibility over time. Appropriate descriptive tools along with percentages, graphs, and tables will be used to substances the study objective. All the analysis will be run in QGIS and STATA Software. The study found healthcare accessibility is poor for more than 30 minutes and 50 km away from district hospital. There was gap in access to the health district hospital because time and distance are not same for all patients to the health facility. Health resources should be allocated depending on the degree of development and the priorities should be established.
Stakeholder perspective: This study will offer significant policy inputs about the equitable and ideal distribution of healthcare facilities on the basis of distance, time, and supporting infrastructure.
Keywords: Spatial-Access, Healthcare-Facilities, GIS, Healthcare Access-Index
Conference/Value in Health Info
Value in Health, Volume 26, Issue 6, S2 (June 2023)
Acceptance Code
CS11
Topic
Health Policy & Regulatory, Methodological & Statistical Research
Topic Subcategory
Approval & Labeling, Reimbursement & Access Policy, Survey Methods
Disease
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