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Abstract
A GIS based strategic disease prediction model to support Rural Health services system
Stuti Shukla
Information Applications Division
Space Applications Centre
Ahmedabad
e-mail: stuti@ipdpg.gov.in
R.K. Goel
Information Applications Division
Space Applications Centre
Ahmedabad
Abstract
New millenium has made us to realize many of our long cherished goals. Health care system is one of them. India is continuously marching to head a country where every body has a basic health care facility and services. In our country, which is very diverse and heterogeneous in its very composition presents a challenge to the Health care system also. Health care system face diverse and complex health problems. The problem is enhanced by the rapidly growing population and severe resource constraints. The use of health care management or information requires quick decision making by the planners. This task can be handled well by taking advantage of the satellite age. Here it has been tried to present the GIS coupled strategy to support the health services in the rural areas. The NRIS data is made use of as a main data source. The disease taken as an example is malaria. The application is intended to predict the risk zones and spatial coherency of the regions for transmitting the disease in general. A spatial model combined with empirical analysis is proposed to present the general potential of a region for the disease occurrence so that advance health decision could be made to handle the situation aptly.
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