Using GIS to Evaluate a Fire Safety Program in North Carolina.
Evaluating program impact is a critical aspect of public health. Utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a novel way to evaluate programs which try to reduce residential fire injuries and deaths. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the application of GIS within the evaluation of a...
| Published in: | Journal of Community Health Vol. 38; no. 5; pp. 951 - 958 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2013
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=90132703&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 90132703 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00945145 JCH jtl: Journal of Community Health issn: 00945145 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2013 vid: 38 iid: 5 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 90132703 10.1007/s10900-013-9705-x ppf: 951 ppct: 7 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 447KB tig: atl: Using GIS to Evaluate a Fire Safety Program in North Carolina. aug: au: Dudley, Thomas Creppage, Kathleen Shanahan, Meghan Proescholdbell, Scott affil: Injury and Violence Prevention Branch, NC Department of Health and Human Services, 5505 Six Forks Road, Bldg. 1, A-2 Raleigh 27609 USA Injury Prevention Research Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 137 East Franklin Street, Suite 500, CB 7505 Chapel Hill 27599-7505 USA su: North Carolina Interviewing Fire prevention Fire alarms Geographic information systems Statistics Surveys Data analysis Data analysis software Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Interviewing North Carolina Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths) Fire prevention Fire alarms Geographic information systems Statistics Surveys Data analysis Data analysis software Descriptive statistics keyword: Fire safety Geocoding GIS Injury surveillance Methodology Potential lives saved Program evaluation Fire safety Geocoding GIS Injury surveillance Methodology Potential lives saved Program evaluation ab: Evaluating program impact is a critical aspect of public health. Utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a novel way to evaluate programs which try to reduce residential fire injuries and deaths. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the application of GIS within the evaluation of a smoke alarm installation program in North Carolina. This approach incorporates national fire incident data which, when linked with program data, provides a clear depiction of the 10 years impact of the Get Alarmed, NC! program and estimates the number of potential lives saved. We overlapped Get Alarmed, NC! program installation data with national information on fires using GIS to identify homes that experienced a fire after an alarm was installed and calculated potential lives saved based on program documentation and average housing occupancy. We found that using GIS was an efficient and quick way to match addresses from two distinct sources. From this approach we estimated that between 221 and 384 residents were potentially saved due to alarms installed in their homes by Get Alarmed, NC!. Compared with other program evaluations that require intensive and costly participant telephone surveys and/or in-person interviews, the GIS approach is inexpensive, quick, and can easily analyze large disparate datasets. In addition, it can be used to help target the areas most at risk from the onset. These benefits suggest that by incorporating previously unutilized data, the GIS approach has the potential for broader applications within public health program evaluation. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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