Geographic Methods for Health Services Research
A Focus on the Rural-urban Continuum
Published on 24. May 1994
Book
Hardback
396 pages
978-0-8191-9532-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book is intended to demonstrate the application of analytic geography and cartographic techniques in health services research. Applications of these methods in identifying the problems encountered in the analysis and distribution of disease, various health indicators, and health care resources are depicted and interpreted.
Contents: Introduction; A Focus on Rural and Regional Health Care Delivery; Point of Departure: Population Density and Research; Changes and Measures in the Crucial Dimension of Population; Point of Departure: Data Sources for Health Services Research; Access to Health Services; Point of Departure: Access and Cartography; Health Professions Distributions; Point of Departure: Community-Based Measures of Underservice; Point of Departure: Tracking Doctors into the Twenty-First Century; Regionalization of Health Care; Point of Departure: Rural Places and Regionalization; Point of Departure: Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Methods for Defining Medical Service Areas; Point of Departure: Hospital Closure and Access to Hospital Services; Contagious Diseases; Point of Departure: Adjustment of Tuberculosis Incidence Rates; Evaluating Clusters of Adverse Health Outcomes; Point of Departure: State Cancer Control Map and Data Program Analysis; Technical Notes; Glossary of Technical Terms; References; Index.
Contents: Introduction; A Focus on Rural and Regional Health Care Delivery; Point of Departure: Population Density and Research; Changes and Measures in the Crucial Dimension of Population; Point of Departure: Data Sources for Health Services Research; Access to Health Services; Point of Departure: Access and Cartography; Health Professions Distributions; Point of Departure: Community-Based Measures of Underservice; Point of Departure: Tracking Doctors into the Twenty-First Century; Regionalization of Health Care; Point of Departure: Rural Places and Regionalization; Point of Departure: Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Methods for Defining Medical Service Areas; Point of Departure: Hospital Closure and Access to Hospital Services; Contagious Diseases; Point of Departure: Adjustment of Tuberculosis Incidence Rates; Evaluating Clusters of Adverse Health Outcomes; Point of Departure: State Cancer Control Map and Data Program Analysis; Technical Notes; Glossary of Technical Terms; References; Index.
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...a good starting point for health care planners and professionals who would like to become more familiar with basic geographic methods and their usefulness in adding a spatial perspective to health care. Health and Place ...a good starting point for health care planners and professionals who would like to become more familiar with basic geographic methods and their usefulness in adding a spatial perspective to health care. Health and PlaceMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
technical notes, glossary, references, index
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
744 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8191-9532-6 (9780819195326)
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Persons
Thomas C. Ricketts is Director of the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Service Research. He is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Policy & Administration, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill. Lucy A. Savitz is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Health Policy and Administration at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Wilbert M. Gesler is an Associate Professor of Geography at the same university.