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Unit 1 Introduction to healthcare systems
1.1 Different health care delivery models
1.2 Market vs welfare health care systems
1.3 The role of other providers
1.4 The purposes of health care planing
Unit 2 Concepts in Spatial Healthcare Planning
2.1 Principles of spatial organization and efficiency
2.2 Geographical accessiblity vs specialization
2.3 The inverse care law
2.4 Social and spatial explanations
2.5 Population denominators, service provision and usage
Unit 3 Representing Healthcare Provision
3.1 Health care locations
3.2 Market areas, catchment populations
3.3 Health care records
3.4 Mobile services, community services and telemedicine
Unit 4 Healthcare Needs Assessment & Demand Representation
4.1 Relative and absolute need
4.2 Medical and social needs models
4.3 Census, survey and administrative sources
4.4 Demand characteristics
4.5 Deprivation indicators
4.6 Targeting population groups
4.7 Cultural specificity
4.8 Assignment: health needs mapping
Unit 5 Transportation & Geographic Access
5.1 Transport considerations
5.2 Definitions of accessibility
5.3 Understanding patient travel
5.4 Representing the patient travel system
5.5 Generalized models – ARIA
5.6 Assignment
Unit 6 Analysing Healthcare Utilisation
6.1 Health care records
6.2 Spatial interaction models
Unit 7 Planning Healthcare Services
7.1 Levels of sophistication in facility location modelling
7.2 Catchment models
7.3 Site availability and suitability
7.4 Location-allocation modelling
7.5 Assignment
Unit 8 Inequalities in Service Provision & Usage
8.1 The need/use/service provision dilemma
8.2 Multiple geographical scales
8.3 Endurance of inequalities through time
8.4 Social and spatial explanations
Unit 9 Special Topics
9.1 Healthcare planning for emergencies
9.2 Vaccination programmes
9.3 Screening programmes
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