الملائمة المكانية للخدمات الصحية في مدينة بلد لعام 2020م

Abstract EN

The research aims to give a detailed picture of the reality of the spatial distribution of health services and determine their spatial suitability to serve the population and area of residential neighborhoods in Balad for the year 2020, using the contemporary applied method that adopted the application of geographic information systems (GIS) technology, using many of its functions in the analysis process Spatial and building of spatial suitability models according to the planning criteria, and the study found clear deficiencies and defects in the spatial distribution of health services in the city, which made them take the random and divergent pattern, as the calculated value of (R) reached (1.16), which leads to the weakness of the health service provided And that a rate of (55.20% ) of the total area of the city is only served by the scope of (health centers), which indicates the magnitude of the deficiency in the ideal coverage of this type of services and the need to build optimal spatial suitability models for their distribution.