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Irish Health Data???

  • 25-03-2010 12:23am
    #1
    chave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Im looking to find data on the Amount of GPs in an area(or the country) over time and the amount of times people visit the doctor over the same time series.

    any ideas???


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  • #2
    Ostrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    chave wrote: »
    Hi,

    Im looking to find data on the Amount of GPs in an area(or the country) over time and the amount of times people visit the doctor over the same time series.

    any ideas???

    Dont know if such specific data are available, but Ronan Foley has spent some time mapping hospital cachments and healthcare asscess through GIS. If you have access to journals, search for his name in Irish Geography, his most recent was 2009 if I remember. A start anyway...

    Foley, Ronan. 2008. Geographies of Formal Care in Ireland, 2002-2006, Irish Geography, 41,3: 261-278

    Foley, Ronan. 2006. Health, Place and Hanly: Modeling Accessibility to hospitals in Ireland, Irish Geography, 31,1: 52-68


  • #3
    Économiste Monétaire
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    I believe Dave Madden wrote a paper on supplier-induced demand by GPs and analysed data of this sort. I'm not aware of any publicly available datasets for this.


  • #4
    Time Magazine
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    You're unlikely to get that data because I don't think it exists.

    You might be better off looking for a microfile (e.g. QNHS) that has distance to doctor as well as frequency of visits listed. You might not get this for Ireland, either.


  • #5
    Ostrom
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    The best you could do is identify the GP locations in a GIS dataset (which is easily available) and estimate the cachments yourself. It might help with your first question.


  • #6
    chave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭chave


    Thanks everyone for your advice


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
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    If you want to change focus, the British Houshold Panel Data Survey (or whatever its called) has this info I think.

    Its a great dataset.


  • #8
    Ostrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    http://www.slan06.ie/SLAN-07FinalAnnotated.pdf

    Question A10 might be useful, you can write to James McBride who can supply the data.

    I had trouble with the BHPS, were you able to access it from Ireland? I was told through the UKDA that they wouldn't supply panel data for identity protection


    edit: If you request a nesstar password you should be able to browse the data and run a few basic commands. The 2008 NQHS and a number of other ESRI datasets are up there too, you might find a few useful variables


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