Introduction to hands-on exercise - accessibility ESTP Course 9th of May 2014
Accessibility to emergency hospitals The European Core Health Indicators 80: Equity of access to health care services Aim: Percentage of population within 30 min. driving time Results: Table, (maps, figure) Three GIS-data sources in our exercise: Population grid Emergency hospitals Road network Analysis tools: Network analysis (service area) Overlay operation (intersect or equivalent) Statistics (summary statistics)
Study area Oslo and Akershus
Make sure extension is activated
1. Population downloaded from www.ssb.no/geodata/
2. Emergency hospitals
3. Road network Ready made for analysis Provided by NMA/PRA If you do not have a network dataset then you must create it based on road features:
New service area
Right-click «service area» in ToC
Right-click facilities and «load locations»
«Solve» to start the analysis
Next step: Overlay Intersect Identity Spatial join Select layer by location
How to combine «service area» with population grid – knowledge gained from GEOSTAT 1B:
Summary statistics Use the «summary statistics» tool to extract statistics