A Geospatial Assessment of Health Care Facilities (A Case Study of Alimosho Local Government Area)

Mebude Oluwatobiloba Tope and Mr S.O. Akintoye
Additional contact information
Mebude Oluwatobiloba Tope: Department of Surveying and Geo Informatics, University of Lagos
Mr S.O. Akintoye: Department of Surveying and Geo Informatics, University of Lagos

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2024, vol. 11, issue 11, 862-891

Abstract: This project deals with the use of geospatial processes and analysis in viewing or accessing various facilities used in healthcare services across Alimosho Local Government Area. It highlights and explains the principles, challenges, and advantages in using a geospatial approach in assessing health care infrastructure. The progress in GIS and increased awareness about it has provided numerous opportunities for health care administrators and government at all levels to improve their monitoring and evaluation capabilities. Information on availability and adequacy of health care facilities is not readily available, and this is what has prompted this study. As such, this study incorporates data obtained from relevant authorities in the health sector coupled with comprehensive analysis using GIS to arrive at reasonable overview of the health care infrastructure within the local government area with a view to ascertaining whether there is any imbalance. The locations of several health care facilities which consist of hospitals, clinics and pharmacies were ascertained using Global Positioning System (GPS) and their addresses were collected from the Ministry of Health to create a database using Microsoft excel. Additional information comes from questionnaires issued to the facility management and that serves as attribute data for both the database and visual map. Parameters such as ownership and category were also included in the database. The softcopy map was imported into ArcGIS 10.2. The results obtained have shown that geospatial analysis can be used as an effective approach in assessing health care facilities at all levels.

Date: 2024
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.rsisinternational.org/journals/ijrsi/d ... issue-11/862-891.pdf (application/pdf)
https://rsisinternational.org/journals/ijrsi/artic ... cal-government-area/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bjc:journl:v:11:y:2024:i:11:p:862-891

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation is currently edited by Dr. Renu Malsaria

More articles in International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation from International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Dr. Renu Malsaria ().