Contextualizing the Urban Healthcare System. Methodology for developing a geodatabase of Delhi’s healthcare system Bertrand Lefebvre, Pierre Chapelet To cite this version: Bertrand Lefebvre, Pierre Chapelet. Contextualizing the Urban Healthcare System. Methodology for developing a geodatabase of Delhi’s healthcare system. Publication of the French Research Institutes in India. Rajdhani Art Press, pp.135, 2005, CSH Occasional Papers, 0972-3579. hal-00686947 HAL Id: hal-00686947 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00686947 Submitted on 11 Apr 2012 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. CONTEXTUALIZING THE URBAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM Methodology for developing a geodatabase of Delhi’s healthcare system Pierre Chapelet University of Rouen (France) (
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[email protected]) Keywords: GIS, Social Sciences, Healthcare system, Data Exploratory Analysis, Multiscalar, Delhi, Census 1991/2001. Abstract: This paper introduces the setting up of a Geographical Information System on Delhi for studies in the Social Sciences. Through an explanation of their methodological procedure and demonstration of thematic applications focusing on the healthcare system’s spatial organization, the authors lead us through the inherent difficulties of building a GIS in an emerging country like India.