Natural borders are identified by different natural barriers or screens (such as mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, bays, or straits). Because of their importance to military defense, mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, bays, and straits have been usually adopted by territorial rulers to serve as poli...
Limited access to high-speed internet, advanced GIS software (such as ArcGIS or QGIS), and trained personnel are significant barriers [76]. The lack of infrastructure hinders the use of GIS for real-time monitoring and analysis. For example, Mala and Jat [12] utilised sophisticated tools like...
reported that a GIS is an effective tool for supporting spatial decision-making in public health because of its analytical ability to address healthcare planning issues. Nykiforuk and Flaman [7] attempted to identify how GIS applications have been used in global health-related research, especially...
This, too, is one of the modalities of later modern war – the weaponisation of health care, through selectively withdrawing it from some sections of the population while privileging the access and quality for others. ‘Health care,’writesOmar Dewachi, ‘has become not only a target but als...
“no one should be denied adequate healthcare due to lack of means,” (Food and Health Bureau, 2010) low-income and deprived people were less prone to having a regular source of primary care (Chung et al., 2019), which might impose barriers to timely access of healthcare services even ...
‘. I’ll be talking about the war in Syria, drawing on my previous work on attacks on hospitals, healthcare workers and patients (see ‘Your turn, doctor‘) – which I’ve now considerably extended as I work on turning all this into a longform essay: I’ll post some updates as ...
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Characterizing the availability of opportunities to residents has been a long-term aim in health care geographic investigation. It is important to measure
Inequalities have been widely acknowledged as barriers to achieving global and national targets in malaria programs. To realize global malaria elimination, routine surveillance activities should include inequality monitoring at lower geographic levels from which methods to address existing gaps can be drawn....
Medicine and medical workers have also been sucked into the violence. This can be seen in the attempts by the Syrian government to control the provision of healthcare in opposition-held areas by denying humanitarian access, threatening or arresting medical staff, and damaging or destroying medical ...