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        <idAbs>&lt;p style='margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:white;'&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; color:black;'&gt;The academic map performed is part of the GIS Exercise
in in the subject GIS Applications. Master in Geospatial Technologies. NOVA
IMS.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style='margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:white;'&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; color:black;'&gt;The map contains 5 geographic layers:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:white;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style='color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; text-indent: -18pt;'&gt;Locations of Hospitals in Sri Lanka (2012)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style='color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; text-indent: -18pt;'&gt;Distribution of Hospitals over districts
(2012)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:white;'&gt;&lt;span style='color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; text-align: justify;'&gt;Hospitals are concentrated in the municipality located in the capital
city of Colombo. By observing the number of inhabitants, it can be seen that
such concentration occurs in areas with a large number of inhabitants, mainly
Colombo and Kandy. On the other hand, the map reveals that municipalities with
a few residents tend to have no or few hospitals, as seen in the western and
eastern parts of the study area.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:white;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style='color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; text-indent: -18pt;'&gt;No of Hospitals per 100 000 people
(2012)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style='color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; text-indent: -18pt;'&gt;No of Hospitals per 100 000 people
(2001)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style='margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:white;'&gt;&lt;span style='font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; color:black;'&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; text-align: justify;'&gt;The calculation of the number of hospitals per &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; text-align: justify; color: black;'&gt;100 000 people in 2012,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; text-align: justify;'&gt; reflects an intuitive
relationship between the number of hospitals and the population As shown, the
spatial distribution of hospitals across the population is not uniform over the
country, and there are many hospitals per 100,000 people in the north and few
hospitals per 100,000 people in most populated cities such as Colombo, Matara
and Gampaha.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; text-align: justify;'&gt;The northern province has low population, so the
hospital density is high. The main reason is that the civil war in Sri Lanka
has continued for over 30 years. Initial estimated population of 800,000 to
1000,000 were died in the north during the war, so these parts were less
populated in 2012 than in 2001.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:white;'&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style='color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;'&gt;Increase or decrease in the number of people assigned to a hospital from
2000 to 2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:white;'&gt;&lt;span style='text-align: justify; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; color: black;'&gt;In
terms of changes considering time,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='text-align: justify; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;'&gt; As the population grew, more
people were assigned to one hospital in 2012 than in 2000 in almost every
district. However, in Jaffna and Mannar there are exceptions, due to the
population decline in the north because of the civil war.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='text-align:justify;'&gt;&lt;span style=''&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</idAbs>
        
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        <idPurp>The academic map performed is part of the GIS Exercise in in the subject GIS Applications. Master in Geospatial Technologies. NOVA IMS.</idPurp>
        
        <idCredit>https://nsdi.gov.lk/geoportal, http://www.statistics.gov.lk/PopHouSat/CPH2011/Pages/Activities/Reports/FinalReport/FinalReport.pdf, https://www.diva-gis.org/gdata</idCredit>
        
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