Atlas: Contextualising Delhi's Health Care System
This part is intended to show some of the outputs we can generate with our tool. Moreover, it aims at implementing the research posture presented in the second part of this paper. Through an active research posture based on Exploratory Data Analysis, we will address the issue of healthcare system organization in the context of an agglomeration such as Delhi.
The idea underlying the following exercise is not to fully detail the organisation and functioning of the health system in India (see BANERJI 2001 or VAGUET 2004), but rather to examine the spatial organisation of the healthcare system alongside the social and economic context in which it takes place. In order to better assess phenomena taking place in the Indian Capital, it is relevant to contextualise its situation in broader perspectives. That is why, before directly presenting its organisation at the Delhi scale, we will first contextualise Delhi’s situation in larger perspectives. The starting point of this “exploration” will be to the scale of the North West of India in order to see whether there is any integration of the Indian Capital with its hinterland, either from the socio-demographic or healthcare point of view. Then, we shall focus on the National Capital Territory itself. Here also, the purpose is to contextualise the spatial organisation of the health actors under a broader socio-economic spatial setting. Finally, a large-scale approach to Gurgaon will enable us to deepen our understanding of the spatial strategies of healthcare actors.
The following chapters have been consciously written in a very descriptive way, their purpose being to mostly illustrate the abilities of our tool to reveal spatial phenomena relative to the health system.