Assessing Development Status of Health - Treatment Indicator by Using Planning Tecniques and Providing a Composite Model (Case Study: Zagros Region)

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

Nader Shohani ¹ , Borhan Vesi Nab ² , Sara Kkodayi ³ , Sohrab Amirian ⁴

1 - Asistant Professor Dep. of Geography, Ilam Center Payame Noor University, Ilam, Iran
2 - Ph.D. Candidate in Geography and Urban Planning, university of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
3 - M.A in Geography and Urban Planning, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran
4 - Assistant professor Dep. of Geography, Payame Noor University, Sanandaj, Iran

Received: 2016-02-21 Accepted : 2018-01-06 Published : 2018-05-22

Keywords: Regional Development, Zagros region, health - treatment Index, planning models,

Abstract :

Equitable distribution of health facilities is one of the main prerequisites to increase the level of community services and health care. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and rank degree of development of Zagros Mountains regions in health - treatment index by care planning model (VIKOR, TOPSIS and taxonomy correction). The results of these three models provide integrated model based on the integration techniques. Required data and information which includes 35 variables, refer to the relevant organizations (health, etc.) and the site data has been collected (about 90 years). Research method is descriptive - analytical and used Excel and SPSS statistical software for analyzing data and ArcGIS for better spatial analysis of development through provinces. The results show that there is a vast gap of benefitting of health - treatment index between the provinces, because only Hamadan and Kurdistan provinces are benefiting from it and the provinces of Kermanshah, Ilam and Lorestan are at a low level. Finally, changing speed equation showed that right-modification taxonomy model is more proper way than other models (VIKOR and TOPSIS) to assess the status of development areas because the results of the model has less degree and intensity of change.

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