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Track: Health Care Services
Sarra Nanou
24991 Prospect Ave.
Loma Linda, CA 92354
Telephone: 909-796-1195
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GIS Role in Public Health
Defining Issue: Prenatal care via mobile health clinics. GIS Solution: Determining the number, time, and area of the prenatal examination stops for the mobile clinics. Methodology: GIS methodology is used in this project to find a feasible plan to solve a public health tragedy growing worse day by day. Unwed teenage mothers are not getting proper prenatal care in the County of San Bernardino. This was resulting in a large increase in babies being born with birth defects. The monumental expenses of caring for these babies was surpassed only by the human suffering of these children and their caregivers. The task for GIS would fully tax its capabilities. GIS must pinpoint the area where this care was needed in a county with an area of 19,319 square miles, populated by 1,591,000 people. This solution must provide that care, financed by extremely limited income from so few people, and cover an area larger than some of our states. GIS would not only perform the task assigned to it - GIS would point to the
solution and provide the presenter of that solution with the tools to attain the funding requirement. This should firmly entrench GIS as a prominent and permanent part of problem solving in the field of public health. Software: The application was written using ArcView Version 2.1, MS PowerPoint Version 7.0, Deskscan II Version 2.3, and Adobe Photoshop Version 3.0. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the application and its function as well as review the technical challenges encountered during the development and integration of the different software products.
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