التحليل الجغرافي للأمراض في محافظة الدقهلية و رحلة العلاج لمستشفى المنصورة العام

Abstract EN

The study of medical geography was associated with a study of diseases, The relationship between disease and the environment began to become clearer when researchers began to treat disease distribution on a geographical basis, supported by statistical measures.

Mansoura GeneralHospital attracts a large number of patients from Dakahlia and its neighboring governorates, which is a burden on the general hospital and its available potential and affects the quality of treatment provided, which requires the identification of these potentials and the number of frequented patients.

The study used the quantitative method (statistical) in the classification, tabulation and analysis of data and for using the correlation coefficient and coefficient of disease concentration, in addition to the use of (ARC, GIS ), ( ARC, Info) programs in the cartographic analysis of the research elements, in addition to using the field method to survey the opinion of patients in Al Monsoura general hospital in 2016.

The study deals with the subject of geographical analysis of diseases in Dakahlia governorate and the treatment trip to Mansoura GeneralHospital
through the following axes:
First: Distribution of major diseases in Dakahlia Governorate in 2013, and by applying the disease concentration coefficient in the governorate centers, there is a high concentration of diseases in El –Gamaliya, Met- Selsbel, El – Matrya, El Manzala and Dakrnas, these centers have a remote geographical location and are far from the health service centers in the governorate.

Second: Geographical factors that affect the spread of major diseases in the governorate through different environmental, urban and human factors.

Third: The characteristics of treatment trip for those who frequent to Mansoura GeneralHospital in 2016, this through the distance they cut, the time taken, the means used, the cost spent, and the possibility of treatment. 
By studying the geographical influence of Al Mansoura General Hospital, it was found that the average number of patients coming to the hospital decreases with the increase of the distance of the places of residence of those who frequent to treatment and to the hospital, The range of the high influence of the General Hospital in Mansoura was determined at a distance not exceeding 30 km about 84.4% of the total number of patients coming for treatment in 2016, so the study recommends that it is necessary to distribute the hospitals according to the distances which the study reached, so that the health service reaches all the populations and make full use of this service.