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2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Evaluation of influence for community emergency medical service after the closure of emergency hospital: with basic analysis by GIS

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 24790508
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Medical sociology
Research InstitutionOsaka City University

Principal Investigator

KIMURA Yoshinari  大阪市立大学, 大学院文学研究科, 准教授 (20570641)

Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) SHIWAKU Kuninori  島根大学, 医学部環境保健医学講座, 教授 (10108384)
HAMANO Tsuyoshi  島根大学, プロジェクト研究推進機構, 講師 (80410257)
Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords救急医療 / 地理情報システム / 二次医療圏
Research Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accessibility to emergency medical hospitals in Shimane Prefecture by using actual emergency recognition data and GIS. We gathered emergency recognition data from four fire departments and then evaluated the time from initial response to the emergency call to the arrival at the scene and the time an ambulance drives from the scene to hospitals. Additionally, we categorized areas within 3 mins., 10 mins., 30 mins. and over 30 mins. transportation time to evaluate the accessibility to emergency hospitals by using GIS.
As result of our analysis, firstly we confirmed patients were forced to take longer transportation time in weeknights, compared to other time zones in some fire department areas. Secondly, we found there was a disparity of transportation time to emergency hospitals among secondary medical care zones and estimated residents in the Ohda area were influenced by the closure of the emergency unit in terms of accessibility.

  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2013 2012

All Presentation (2 results)

  • [Presentation] 大阪市における救急覚知場所の基礎的考察2013

    • Author(s)
      木村義成,山本啓雅,溝端康光
    • Organizer
      人文地理学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      大阪市立大学
    • Year and Date
      2013-11-10
  • [Presentation] Place and People : what can we learn from the evidences?2012

    • Author(s)
      Yoshinari Kimura, Tsuyoshi Hamano, Miwako Takeda, Masayuki Yamasaki, Kuninori Shiwaku
    • Organizer
      第61回日本農村医学会学術総会ワークショップ6 Social capital and health
    • Place of Presentation
      島根県民会館
    • Year and Date
      2012-11-02

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Published: 2015-06-25  

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