Spatial Implications Embedded In the Public Health Historical Archives- Using Karenko Prefecture from 1920 to 1945 as an Example

• Main Authors: Kuan-Ching Ku, 辜冠程
• Other Authors: Chun-Lin Kuo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70092511862782870618

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 臺灣文化學系 === 99 === A considerable number of surveys were carried out during the Japanese colonial period and were further made into statistics reports, including the official documents. The statistics reports and official documents documented a lot of information about public health history contributing to the essential data which was also analyzed and discussed regarding the achievement and mechanism at that time. The significance of traditionally used GIS (Geographical Information System) is the testament to the medium of spatial information visualization. GIS, functioning as map, overlays with multiple time lapses and enables the exhibition of research findings in a dynamic state of development within space-time axis configuration. This research adopted the grid approach and unshackled constraints imposed by changes reflected in administrative boundaries. From the interpretations based upon perspectives from public health distribution region, the spatial empirical evidences were added so as to facilitate better fine-tuned discussions of the spatial implications embedded in the Public Health historical archives. During Japanese occupation period, in the spatial aspect of public health affairs, there existed corresponding implementing and spatial domains; whereas the public health space of the Karenko Prefecture comprised of two parallel health spaces, i.e. public health space, health and medicare space. Public health space was exclusively held responsible of the public health matters nonetheless health and medicare space was to provide health medical treatments in addition to monitor and support public health spaces. The spatial division in health aspect was according to the officially optimal spatial division guidelines so as to operate accordingly the public health for Karenko Prefecture. Nevertheless in the public health resource and disease prevention aspects, there existed discrepancies between spatial distributions. Main cause for these could stem from the level of local focus by the officials which impacted the public health resource or created by locally natural society as result.