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The issue of healthcare has become a more important topic for spatial sciences and spatial planning in recent years, not only due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but also due to an increasing shortage of skilled labour. In addition to various approaches to preventive health protection and health promotion, it is also increasingly about ensuring equal living conditions and basic outpatient care for the population in all regions.
This article presents the development and status of a digital decision support system for political decision-makers at local and supra-local level for outpatient healthcare, which was developed as a component of a more complex decision support system in the project ‘Ageing Smart - designing spaces intelligently’ funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung (see www.ageing-smart; funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung). It includes (1) a data-supported analysis of the existing situation / initial situation (development and structure of the population including the household structure and forecasts, existing healthcare provision and forecasts), (2) a dynamic, intermodal accessibility analysis of healthcare facilities, (Stiewing et al. (3) a survey of the affected population on the healthcare situation (here using the example of baby boomers in four model municipalities) and (4) a collection of possible analogue and digital options for action and, hopefully in the future, the possibility of visualising the effects of these in order to be able to discuss and assess different scenarios for action.
The decision support system should also contribute to supporting smart, data- and fact-based planning and political decisions in times of increasingly ‘alternative’ facts and opinion-based politics (cf. Wiechmann et.al 2024). It also represents an approach to positioning spatial planning more strongly as an actor in this field (cf. ARL 2023) and to qualifying participation processes through a good database and simple visualisations of solution approaches.
References
Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz Gesellschaft (ARL) (2023): Forschungskonzept 2023 bis 2028, räumliche Transformation in Zeiten multipler Krisen, Hannover.
Stiewing, M.; Weber, T.; Mangels, K.; Ruzika, S.; Fröhlich, N.; Hausbrandt, N. (2021): “Black Box Babyboomer” – Was kommt auf Kommunen zu? Decision Support System mit Hilfe mathematischer Erreichbarkeitsmodellierung medizinischer Versorgungsstandorte, in: Schrenk et al. (2021): REAL CORP 2022 Proceedings/Tagungsband 14-16 November 2022– https://www.corp.at.
Wiechmann, Thorsten; Buße von Colbe, Jakob; Linsen, Till; Klemme, Marion; Schulze Dieckhoff, Viola (2024): Zur Zukunft der Planung, in: Informationskreis für Raumplanung (Hrsg.) RaumPlanung 226 /2 2024, Dortmund.
| Keywords | smart region; planning support system; public health; demographic change |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | No |
