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) ([email protected]) Bertrand Lefebvre University of Rouen (France) – Centre de Sciences Humaines (India) ([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. They also attempt to demonstrate that this kind of tool remains, however, a relevant support for research in the Social Sciences as long as it is used with care and knowledge of the dataset frame. From this perspective, Exploratory Data Analysis coupled with the play of scales provide powerful ways to assess socio-spatial dynamics taking place in the Indian capital. CSH OCCASIONAL PAPER N° 11 / 2005 CSH OCCASIONAL PAPER CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS............................................................................................................4 INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................................5 THE USE OF GIS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HEALTH STUDIES .......................................11 1. Geographical Information Systems and spatial analysis.................................................................................................11 2. Increasing use of GIS in Social Sciences...........................................................................................................................14 3. GIS applications in the field of Health Geography..........................................................................................................15 i. Locating health services ...................................................................................................................................................16 ii. Analysing access to health services.................................................................................................................................17 4. GIS and Health: The Indian Scenario ..............................................................................................................................18 5. Constraints in the use of GIS in Social Sciences and Health Studies .............................................................................19 i. Data Constraints ...............................................................................................................................................................19 ii. GIS Constraints ...............................................................................................................................................................20 iii. The Indian Scenario........................................................................................................................................................21 RESEARCH POSTURE, METHODOLOGY AND GIS SET-UP ................................................24 1. Research Posture of the Project: Towards the Complexity Approach ..........................................................................24 2. Methodology: From GIS to Cartomatic and Exploratory Data Analysis......................................................................25 a) The contextualisation concept and the play of scales..................................................................................................25 b) Cartomatic and Exploratory Data Analysis ................................................................................................................27 3. Presentation of selected Perceptions levels: objectives, sources and results..................................................................28 i. National Capital Territory of Delhi ..................................................................................................................................29 a) GIS objectives.............................................................................................................................................................29 b) GIS sources.................................................................................................................................................................29 c) Results and future development..................................................................................................................................30 ii. Delhi Metropolitan Area..................................................................................................................................................32 a) GIS objectives.............................................................................................................................................................32 b) GIS sources.................................................................................................................................................................32 c) Results and future development..................................................................................................................................34 iii. Gurgaon..........................................................................................................................................................................35 a) GIS objectives.............................................................................................................................................................35 b) GIS sources.................................................................................................................................................................35 c) Results and future development..................................................................................................................................35 iv. The Urban System in North West India..........................................................................................................................36 a) GIS objectives.............................................................................................................................................................36 b) GIS sources.................................................................................................................................................................36 c) Results and future development..................................................................................................................................37 ATLAS: CONTEXTUALISING DELHI’S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM .........................................39 1. The social and economic context .......................................................................................................................................39 i. Regional context...............................................................................................................................................................39 a) The impact of metropolisation in North West India....................................................................................................39 b) The social context in North West India ......................................................................................................................41 ii. The National Capital Territory of Delhi ..........................................................................................................................43 a) An introduction...........................................................................................................................................................43 b) NCT: Density in 1991.................................................................................................................................................44 c) Household size in 1991...............................................................................................................................................46 d) Scheduled Cast in 1991 ..............................................................................................................................................47