Health GIS - Enabling Health Spatially

Healthcare facility Mapping in Maharashtra using GIS Abstract Sachin Ganorkar The paper presentation objective is to explain the GIS mapping project called as Service Availability Mapping in the state of Maharashtra. The data collection [email protected] method was through secondary research and doing a survey with a structured questionnaire in all the districts of Maharashtra. The questionnaire included questions on health infrastructure, human resources, and availability of key services. This paper aims to explain the preliminary process of creating a tool to capture the necessary data, collecting the data, doing secondary research and feeding the data using Microsoft access. The paper presentation talks about the challenges and barriers faced in questionnaire tool preparation, data collection and training statistical officers. The results are in the process of being published. Epidemiology GIS-MIS System: A Case Study for Roi-Et Province Thailand Abstract Teerawong Laosuwan Due to recent disease outbreak, epidemiological prevention and planning requires [email protected] large amount of data to be manipulated and analyzed. Data which show relation between the distributions of disease outbreak and cases found spatially are most important in order to implement the prevention and planning in time. This investigation aims at developing Geographic Information System (GIS) program for epidemiological study in Roi-et province. Epidemiological data dissemination for public users was carried out via Internet GIS using MySQL database connected to Minnesota Mapserver. PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) was employed for database management and Internet Information Service (IIS) was used as web server.

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