Jamie Pearce, Karen Witten, Phil Bartie
J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:389–395. doi: 10.1136/jech.2005.043281
J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:389–395. doi: 10.1136/jech.2005.043281
Access to amenities in neighborhoods is always a factor when looking for a place to live. That access is shown to correlate with the health of it's occupants as a community. This article explains how how the different material amenities and the access to these amenities are linked to the health of a community. Using GIS, the distance to different shopping, education, health and recreational facilities is measured from the population weighted center of a neighborhood. An example in this article claims that in New Zealand, the average travel time to he nearest food supplier ranged from ~1 minute to more than 244 minutes.
You'll notice the lighter spots of the map are extremely prevelant and widespread in the Southern part of New Zealand, rather than clustered in small areas. This type of GIS methodology can help countless disadvantaged members of neighborhoods and help with zone planning of future shopping centers. GIS was also used to look at the road networks that these disadvantaged populations were taking to get to the suppliers.
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