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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">GH</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Geographica Helvetica</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">GH</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Geogr. Helv.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-8798</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Geographisch-Ethnographische Gesellschaft Zürich</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/gh-65-36-2010</article-id>
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<article-title>Spatial patterns of child health inequalities in the province of Punjab, Pakistan : the advantages of GIS in data analysis</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ur-Rehman</surname>
<given-names>K.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zimmer</surname>
<given-names>A.</given-names>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>University of Basel, Institute of Geography, Urban and Regional Studies, Klingelbergstrasse 27, 4056 Basel, Switzerland</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>University of Bonn, Department of Geography, Meckenheimer Allee 166, D-53115 Bonn, Germany</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>31</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2010</year>
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<volume>65</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<fpage>36</fpage>
<lpage>47</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2010 K. Ur-Rehman</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2010</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>In the overall context of the Millennium Development
Goals, Pakistan recently embarked on an effort to collect
data regarding crucial issues of human development,
such as health, poverty, and education. For their
effective use in policy formulation, however, governments
need to find ways of making the data easily
accessible. It is argued that Geographical Information
Systems (GIS) can play a major role here. The data
compiled by the Federal Bureau of Statistics at district
level are used in this article to develop maps on child
health in the province of Punjab. Correlation allows
identification of major determinants of the health
status of children. For Punjab, these appeared to be
mother literacy, vaccination coverage, and the incidence
of poverty. Interpolation (here using Inverse
Distant Weighting) and variable aggregation allow for
easy identification of areas of concern at sub-district
level. For Punjab, the areas most affected by negative
health conditions are in the southwest. It is argued
that health disparities can be addressed more effectively
with the help of the presented methods because
they help to close the information gap in the health
system and contribute toward more precise allocation
of funds and infrastructure.</p>
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