THINKING SPATIALLY, ACTING COLLABORATIVELY - A GIS-based Health Decision Support System for Improving the Collaborative Health-planning Practice

Ori Gudes, Virendra Pathak, Elizabeth Kendall, Tan Yigitcanlar

2011

Abstract

The field of collaborative health planning faces significant challenges due to the lack of effective information, systems and the absence of a framework to make informed decisions. These challenges have been magnified by the rise of the healthy cities movement, consequently, there have been more frequent calls for localised, collaborative and evidence-driven decision-making. Some studies in the past have reported that the use of decision support systems (DSS) for planning healthy cities may lead to: increase collaboration between stakeholders and the general public, improve the accuracy and quality of the decision-making processes and improve the availability of data and information for health decision-makers. These links have not yet been fully tested and only a handful of studies have evaluated the impact of DSS on stakeholders, policy-makers and health planners. This study suggests a framework for developing healthy cities and introduces an online Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based DSS for improving the collaborative health planning. It also presents preliminary findings of an ongoing case study conducted in the Logan-Beaudesert region of Queensland, Australia. These findings highlight the perceptions of decision-making prior to the implementation of the DSS intervention. Further, the findings help us to understand the potential role of the DSS to improve collaborative health planning practice.

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Gudes O., Pathak V., Kendall E. and Yigitcanlar T. (2011). THINKING SPATIALLY, ACTING COLLABORATIVELY - A GIS-based Health Decision Support System for Improving the Collaborative Health-planning Practice . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-34-8, pages 148-155. DOI: 10.5220/0003131101480155


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@conference{healthinf11,
author={Ori Gudes and Virendra Pathak and Elizabeth Kendall and Tan Yigitcanlar},
title={THINKING SPATIALLY, ACTING COLLABORATIVELY - A GIS-based Health Decision Support System for Improving the Collaborative Health-planning Practice },
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={148-155},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003131101480155},
isbn={978-989-8425-34-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2011)
TI - THINKING SPATIALLY, ACTING COLLABORATIVELY - A GIS-based Health Decision Support System for Improving the Collaborative Health-planning Practice
SN - 978-989-8425-34-8
AU - Gudes O.
AU - Pathak V.
AU - Kendall E.
AU - Yigitcanlar T.
PY - 2011
SP - 148
EP - 155
DO - 10.5220/0003131101480155