Población en situación de vulnerabilidad y su accesibilidad a servicios de salud, una evaluación utilizando base de datos geoespacial en Ecuador

Abstract

In order to evaluate the problems faced by the vulnerable population in accessing health services in Ecuador, we must remember that in recent years access to the different health services has not been centralized or articulated, which means that these services sometimes collapse or are not in use. The main objective of this study is to confirm that vulnerable populations can access these health services, so with this analysis we can verify how much population is within reach of tertiary hospitals, this will be done through a spatial analysis mainly considering the Third Level Santiago Paúl Zagal Alvarez Health Systems and the population in the country. The areas of influence will be developed by implementing Buffers of a distance of 100 kilometers, since the population close to 50 kilometers would not have impediments to reach, such as time, PostgreSQL will also be used, which is a free software engine for database, which will be hosted on the Google Cloud Platform. The ArcMap software will also be used to develop the different analyses and reach the evaluation of the data obtained, with this we will have exact locations on the vulnerable population of 100 kilometers in diameter near the Third Level Health Service. The data obtained in tables from ArcMap, we will transfer it through PostGIS, in order to perform queries and then analyze in spreadsheets through graphs.