Spatial analysis of health facility service coverage in handling of COVID-19 patients in the area Surabaya City Settlement

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Abstract

Settlements in the city of Surabaya are growing rapidly along with the increasing number of residents in the city of Surabaya. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the population in the city of Surabaya has decreased. The city of Surabaya is included in the top 10 districts/cities with the highest cumulative number of deaths and the highest death rate per 100 thousand inhabitants. The widespread use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and technological developments in obtaining, recording, and collecting spatial data can be utilized to solve current problems. The purpose of this study is to develop a geographic information system for the coverage of health facilities for residential areas in the city of Surabaya. The first stage is to identify the location points for the distribution of COVID-19 health facilities and residential areas, analyze the reach of COVID-19 health facility services, and analyze the service coverage of settlements to the services of COVID-19 health facilities. The method used in this research is spatial analysis using the Multiple Ring Buffer method. The output is the service covergae of settlements to hospitals is divided into two categories, namely the medium category by 98% and the distant category by 2%. Meanwhile, for the housing service covergae of the health community centre is 100% in the medium category.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012019
JournalIOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
Volume1015
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 May 2022
Event2021 International Conference on Post Pandemic Cities: A Paradigm Shift?, CITIES 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 20 Oct 202121 Oct 2021

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