Optimal Location Rural Health Centers (Case Study: Roshtkhar District, Khorasan Razavi Province)
Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies
Ali Haji nejad
1
,
mehrshad toulabi nejad
2
,
Khadije sadeghi
3
1 - Associate Professor of Geography and Rural Planning, University of Guilan
2 - PhD student in Geography and Rural Planning, University of Sistan and Baluchestan
3 - PhD student in Geography and Rural Planning, University of Sistan and Baluchestan
Keywords: Location, Network Analysis, Health Center, Roshtkhar district,
Abstract :
The optimal and balanced distribution of spaces allocated to a variety of uses, including sanitary and therapeutic use, is one of the requirements of the organization in order to adhere to the principle of access to justice for all categories of people, to ensure general health and well-being, and to properly locate these centers. Locating the services of different centers is an important part of planning and design. In fact, this will help make better decision makers and managers in choosing better places to create services. Therefore, the aim of this study is to locate rural health centers in rural areas. 20 experts were selected by purposeful sampling. The data-gathering tool was a questionnaire of experts (as a pair comparison). Geographic Information System (GIS) was used to select the optimal location of the network analysis process (ANP), and for spatial analysis of the indicators. The results of the findings show that the most important relative indicators of indicators are related to access to green space indicators (0.283), access to communication network (0.255), and population (0.238), respectively. Also, the best place to locate rural health centers in the study area based on the weight of the options is Sa'adat Abad village (0.181). Accordingly, Mehdi Abad (0.155), Zarqhairi (0.109) and Eshrat Abad (0.053) are in the next priority. Therefore, in order to locate health centers in rural areas, more attention should be paid to effective indicators and how they relate to the region, in order to maximize the coordination between factors.
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