Spatial Distribution of the Primary Health Care Facilities in Enugu State, Nigeria

Since healthcare system was implemented by the Bacon County Hospital a lot of changes have taken place which resulted to introduction of some of the most advanced informatics system. Initial the hospital informatics system was

Health Information and Data- contain and store medical data of patients, in order to make clinical decisions.

Strategic Planning is an essential first step in the development of a result-base accountability system,” (Schilder, 2013, p. 1). In strategic planning an organization must know their goals, missions, and how to reach them. Health care facilities are in huge demand for the elderly and for people who lives in low-income communities. A person who receives good quality health care services can prevent the spread of contagious diseases. This paper will describe the need of the community, population it is serving, and a brief description of the facility.

The socio medical model of health centres/focuses on the social and environmental factors that contribute to society`s health and well being. This model considers social factors in which it upon the impact of

By having place utility in a healthcare setting, we will be able to target markets in rural suburban geographical areas, that allow us to meet our customers preferences, by dominating this type of area, we can focus on adding more convenient ways to attract new clients. In order to have place utility, it’s very vital when locating a geographical area that best suits our clients needs. In order to target these markets it’s extremely important when selecting a location that is suited for the type of customer clientele that we must generate in order to drive up our customer database.

Hoping to infuse a sense of functional modernity into their sprawling medical facilities, the Bacon County Hospital and Health System (BCHHS) of Alma, Georgia elected to join the Georgia Telemedicine Program (GTP) in 2005, and through the implementation of specialized informatics systems many aspects of the hospital's healthcare delivery system have since been significantly improved. Adhering to the stated mission of the BCHHS to "provide compassionate and comprehensive community healthcare that is cost effective," the multi-tiered health system which spans multiple campuses underwent the transition to electronic health records (EHR) with the goal of standardizing its procedures and streamlining its processes. According to the Georgia Partnership for Telehealth (GPT), one hallmark of the BCHHS' inclusion in the program is the hospital's status as a hub within "the Open Access Network, which is a web of statewide access points based on strategic partnerships with successful existing Telemedicine programs … to maximize opportunities for timely specialty services" (2012). One of the pillars of the cooperative relationship between the BCHHS and the GPT is the emerging field of healthcare informatics, which "brings together the various health sciences (eg, medicine, nursing, public health) and other relevant fields including information science, computer science, and cognitive science … to promote the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in

In America, on the state, federal and local Public health organizations use informatics widely. Especially the federal government, most of their research is centered on informatics science and digital technology that will have a great influence on public health. Public health informatics has improved public health and public health services offered to Americans over the last two decades in many ways. For instance, upgrades in technology and transformation in how health care is delivered are just to name a few. Computer systems are not as expensive as the use to be and they are quicker than before. In the past, in information system development projects computer hardware was the foremost expensive cost. Opposed to the past, we now have the World Wide Web that includes graphic and universal communication is also enhanced. The development of the enhanced graphics and communication offers a powerful new example for standardized implementation for all information systems. Streamlining is especially easy since the new development of the web application. Updating and upgrading applications can be accessed immediately without the use of the software. With that being said, the developments in today’s informatics system are more easily made possible and better to understand. Still there is so much being worked on and being more improved upon

According to National Association of County and City Health Officials NAACHO’s MAPP the arranging procedure will decide and address the community needs in a viable and proficient way. Also, will help the community to reach their vision and to create a well-balanced community empowered by community needs and stakeholders that the time is on the right track to fortify and support the strength of the public health system of the city of Chicago.

Even though the MAPP strategic planning model has been initiated for utilizing organizational practices within the external communities to help with improving the outcomes for constituents, it serves a very important goal for health care leaders that are concerned about the public’s health issues. Many communities have utilized this strategy based on the health issues that have plagued several communities for several years, thus, the MAPP process have been proven to work within numerous communities. The resources that are available through MAPP are the CDC, NACCHO, and HRSA which are available to provide an assessment to the community and help with initiating a strategic plan that would benefit all that are affected by health issues or concerns.

The topic of this Geographic Information System project was hospital and health regions density in Canada. With the help of spatial analysis the goal was to quantify hospital density within Canadian health regions, Compare hospital density in Saskatchewan with the rest of Canada and compare the population characteristics of health regions density to the rest of Canada. The types of analysis performed was density analysis, Average nearest neighbor, multi – distance spatial cluster analysis (Ripley’s k function), mean center and standard distance. Through this analysis could give a better understanding of the distribution patterns throughout the Canadian health regions. This will be presented through the use of maps, tables, charts along with

The roles of the intergovernmental (federal, state and local) protect and advance the interest of the society, which includes provision of high quality health care. Notwithstanding that, it is highly impossible for the public health care agencies (PHAs) alone to offer access to quality health care. Therefore, the federal, state and local governments comes in or intervenes by preserving the interest of its citizens through improving the areas of gaps and regulates any form of inefficiency and or injustice within the public health agencies. Also, the governments make provisions for resources like data on travellers, which detects any early or new disease. The idea is to

Internal elements wound include such factors as stability of the health care organization, management, provider capabilities, information systems and organization structure. External factors are less controllable by management and are therefore a greater concern for managers. External factors include socioeconomic, healthcare resources and utilization, economic factors, political factors, environmental factors and demographic factors. Starting with socioeconomic status of the population is important since the higher the income of a population the more they are willing to spend on health care services. The main expectation to this rule is that lower income individuals tend to us emergency department more often. Socioeconomic factors that need to be considered are gender, education, marital status, size of a household and amount of individuals with health care coverage. Epidemiologic factors are needed for studying the amount of individuals with certain health concerns in a particular area. There are 3 main areas that are focused on and they are natality, morbidity and mortality. Next, economic factors which include the vitality of the local area and also country wide since factors like unemployment, decrease in employer based insurance plans and an increase in government health care use all effect strategic planning. Political factors would include new policies or local regulations for acute care hospitals and long-term care facilities. Environmental factors include air and quality of water in the area since this could cause a rise in certain health disease states. Lastly, demographic factors which are basically the study of the population that the health service organization is targeting. All of these factors are needed for strategic planning since these factors are needed to determine the demand for and the utilization of the health care

Greenleaf, a national health insurance company, decided to open a clinic in a busy downtown area near a metro station, they conducted a needs assessment prior to selecting this location. While in the process they must have considered the map of what and how they want to do. There can be several issues they might have considered like: decision-making, time, types of decision that needed to be made for the betterment of the clinic, setting of clinic, internal influencing factors, and External influencing factors. Greenleaf with help of GIS (Geographic Information System) mapping, learned that a large percentage of its policyholders worked within a 1-mile radius of the clinic. The fact that over the past year and after an extensive billboard,

Health System has been developed; the most basic unit is a Sub-Health Post or Health Post in each Village Development Committee area. However, the expansion of the Health System has not been matched by an expansion in the domestive resources, workers and supplies, and the available resources are not efficiently distributed. In

The health workforce and information system building blocks of Nigeria’s health system pose challenges to ensuring universal birth registration. There is currently a health workforce crisis in Nigeria and there are not enough human or financial resources to register Nigeria’s large youth population. In addition, the information system is inefficient and unnecessarily bureaucratic. Currently, the NPC uses a paper-based multi-step system that is highly inefficient. There is also a general lack of awareness of the birth registration requirement, importance and benefits in Nigeria.