Investigación en Geografía de la Salud
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AISBI
Atlas of Indicators of Heath and Social Welfare in Andalusia Read More -
AIMA
Interactive Mortality Atlas for Andalusia Read More -
ODMA
Evolution of the Millennium Development Goals in Andalusia Read More -
AMCA
Goal of the Mortality Atlas for Andalusian Capital Cities Read More -
AISE
Socio-demographic Interactive Atlas for Spain Read More -
Rurality Index
Rurality index for spanish towns Read More -
Deprivation Index
Deprivation index for spanish municipalities Read More -
Training
Training in health geography Read More -
Consultancy
Consultancy in health geography Read More
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DEMAP is a research group within the Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP) which handles all the groyp´s consultancy activities.
DEMAP´s consultancy work includes the implementation of projects and initiatives at institutions, centers or companies requiring global responses in relation to the geographical distribution of health resources and services, mortality, morbidity, health outcomes or social, economic and environmental indicators.
As with other consultancy initiatives conducted by EASP, DEMAP designs customised Health Geography projects for each client, seeking comprehensive solutions that will help them design tailor-made measures to achieve specific targets for imporvement as well as implementation, follow-up and assessment of strategic plans.
Any institutions interested in these activities may request further information via the contact link on this web site.
DEMAP is a research group within the Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP) which organises all the training activities conducted by the group.
DEMAP’s training activities include courses, workshops and specific seminars dealing with the Geography of Health, as well as exchanges with external researchers wishing to spend some time at EASP to work on projects related to spatial and time-related analysis of health indicators.
Courses, workshops and seminars on Helath Geography [Read more]
Stays for external researchers at DEMAP [Read more]
Traditionally, rural areas have been defined on the basis of number of inhabitants. However, a single variable does not adequately reflect such a complex concept as “rurality”. In addition, the population cut-off point used to discern rural and urban areas tends to be arbitrary and varies from one country to another.
DEMAP members have designed a rurality index for small areas in Spain (IRAP). For this purpose, population ageing, economic dependence, farming activities, decency of housing and population density have all been taken into account.
Each municipality has been assigned a number of points, enabling permanent grading of geographical areas, ranking from a lesser to a higher degree of rurality . Zero indicates average rurality.
This rurality index and subsequent up-dates are included in the Socio-demographic Interactive Atlas for SPAIN (AISE).
Please refer to the following papers for more details on methods and results:
R Ocaña-Riola, C Sánchez-Cantalejo. Rurality index for small areas in Spain. Social Indicators Research 2005; 73: 247-266.
E Prieto, R Ocaña-Riola. Updating rurality index for small areas in Spain. Social Indicators Research 2010; 95(2): 267-280.
Interested parties may request the full text article via the contact link on this web site
Deprivation in a given geographical area is defined as the relative lack of goods, resources or services that are widely available in society at large. For years, deprivation in Spain was measured using indices imported from other countries. However these must be checked to ensure they provide an adequate measure of deprivation in our own setting.
Members of DEMAP have proven that not all deprivation indices are useful to measure this concept in Spain. They have now proposed a deprivation index for small areas in Spain (IPAP) based on illiteracy and unemployment rates and the percentage of manual labourers.
Each municipality has been assigned a number of points, thus enabling permanent grading of geographical areas, ranking from a lesser to a higher degree of deprivation. Zero indicates average deprivation.
Please refer to the following paper for more details on methods and results:
C Sánchez-Cantalejo, R Ocaña-Riola, A Fernández. Deprivation index for small areas in Spain. Social Indicators Research 2008; 89: 259-273.
Interested parties may request the full text article via the contact link on this web site
Socio-demographic Interactive Atlas for Spain (AISE)
DEMAP has implemented a number of socio-demographic variables in a Geographical Information System for towns in Spain. These variables were taken from population censuses for 1991 and 2001 and have been used to establish the rurality and deprivation indices described in the products section on this web site.
The Socio-demographic Interactive Atlas for Spain (AISE) includes socio-demographic variables, as well as rurality and deprivation indices for all Spanish towns.