Vineet Kumar Rai, Pravin Kumar*, Praveen Kumar Rai, Ashutosh Singh and Deepak Prasad
Health is fundamental aspect to the national progress in any sphere. Due to various socio-economic and political factors, there exists a widespread inequality in the distribution of health care facilities in India. The study area Ghazipur district, is a part of an alluvial plain of the mid- eastern corner of the middle Ganga valley, located in eastern Uttar Pradesh of India. The main objectives of this paper is to analyses the spatial variation of health care facilities in the district in GIS platform and to provide effectives measures and planning for the health care facilities. The present study is based on statistical data regarding the availability of different types of health care facilities and family welfare facilities at district hospital, community health centres (CHCs), and primary health centres (PHCs) and Sub-centres integrated with GIS. The ratios are calculated with the help of absolute figure of different health care facilities in blocks as per lakh population of Ghazipur district. The data regarding the population is obtained from District Census Handbook. ArcGIS 10.3 software was used to create maps for spatial distribution of health care facilities in the district. The present study reveals that health care facilities are not equally distributed in all the blocks of the district in respect of hospitals, doctors and number of beds. The study is also reflects a huge gap across block level in terms of population distribution of health care facilities.
KeywordsHealth Care Facilities; GIS; Spatial Inequality; PHCs; CHCs
Published Date: 2023-01-11; Received Date: 2022-11-01
