مدخل إلى الاعتبارات التخطيطية العامة للمستشفيات الحكومية ضمن هيكل الخدمات الصحية في العراق

Abstract EN

Governmental hospitals represent an essential part in health care system in any society, and particularly in IRAQ.

They represent the most vital part for many reasons, such as the growth of urban settlements (medium and big cities) at the expense of rural settlements shrinkage, and also the nature of the services given by these hospitals, which are characterized by very high standard with high specialization.

Providing of appropriate planning considerations for these hospitals will positively act upon the process of planning, Feasibility studies, design, execution and utilization of these hospitals, in turn will influence and help the raising of the efficiency of these services.

The justifications of this paper comes from the fact that are absent of these considerations from an integrated and comprehensive framework, so the aim of this paper is to set the main lines for these considerations as an information base and data bank, which work as a guide for every researcher, planner or designer in this field.

The terms and notions put forward and introduced in this paper, are just main entries to be tackled separately in subsequent studies.

The conclusions and recommendations reveal themain guide lines to deal with the suggested considerations, which represent the most significant and vital aspects of the hospitals within the health-care framework in IRAQ.