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8778994

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-9-19
pubmed:abstractText
The National Health Service in Britain is undergoing far-reaching changes. While District and Regional Health Authorities are currently merging, professionals agree that primary health care is most efficiently managed at the local level. This paper uses geographical information systems (GIS) capabilities to identify a nested hierarchy of localities for the management of primary health care in West Sussex, England. GIS coverages were developed which contained key criteria for defining local areas, including nodes or focal points of service provision, edges which act as physical or psychological barriers to movement, districts such as official administrative areas and interaction criteria such as journey to work, school and family doctor (GP) surgeries. Central to the derivation of the localities was a large matrix of patient to GP flows based on postcoded data. Once managed, these data revealed clear geographical patterns of patient to GP allegiance. A large-scale field survey obtained supporting information on the perception of areas from local residents.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0277-9536
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
42
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
801-16
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Defining localities for health planning: a GIS approach.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth, England.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article