caa a22 4500 467898308 CHVBK 20180406152810.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10708-006-9005-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10708-006-9005-4 "Functional localities: an integrated spatial approach towards health care locality definition” [Elektronische Daten] [Niamh Shortt, Adrian Moore] This paper demonstrates a spatial approach towards the definition of localities for health care planning. Recent international decentralisation of health care provision, and more specifically devolution within the United Kingdom, emphasises the need to develop a geographical focus in the delimitation of local structures for health care planning. Geographers, but most especially those applying Geographical Information Science (GIS) techniques, have made enormous contributions in this field and more generally in research related to health services. This paper considers some of these previous approaches and moves on in the light of new technologies, and more importantly the availability of appropriate data, to create localities that reflect dynamic spaces of social interaction, administration and policy. The paper's focus is placed on the importance of flow data that reflects␣the spatial interaction between services and the population. This data, divided into three sub-groups of administration, education and health, allows us to identify the population's allegiance to place and ultimately create spatially bounded functional localities that reflect this. Whilst the approach is largely technology driven, it also incorporates the expertise of local health care professionals thus recognising the importance of collaboration and multi-sectoral engagement. Although this combined approach impacted upon the way in which the final localities were defined, crucially it enabled us to incorporate features of both rigorous spatial analysis and a wealth of local knowledge. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2006 Locality nationallicence Health care planning nationallicence GIS nationallicence Health geography nationallicence Spatial interaction nationallicence Shortt Niamh Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, EH8 4XP, Edinburgh, UK aut Moore Adrian Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, EH8 4XP, Edinburgh, UK aut GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 67/1(2006-09-01), 27-40 0343-2521 67:1<27 2006 67 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9005-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9005-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shortt Niamh Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, EH8 4XP, Edinburgh, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Moore Adrian Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, EH8 4XP, Edinburgh, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 67/1(2006-09-01), 27-40 0343-2521 67:1<27 2006 67 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer