Free Download Using GIS to Identify Opportunities for Improved Health in Urban Slums: The Applied Case of Midnapore, India (Global Perspectives on Health Geography) by Bikash Dutta, Manas Das, Sutapa Rath
English | July 17, 2025 | ISBN: 3031896165 | 282 pages | Epub PDF (True) | 135 Mb
This book offers geospatial modelling techniques for the analysis of healthcare in poor urban neighborhoods and of the ways that residents of these neighborhoods make healthcare choices and cope with deprivation. The authors use the case of Midnapore, India to explore the overall health infrastructure and the perceptions of residents of urban slums regarding the provision, utilization, and accessibility of the healthcare system through the application of geostatistics and geospatial techniques and modelling, with an eye towards reducing inequalities.