Planning health services in Al-Khidr District using GIS

Abstract

Health services represent one of the main pillars that contribute effectively to building andevaluating urban societies, as it is one of the basic elements in the process of social, economic andcivilization development for societies, which is determined by the volume of health services that theindividual gets efficiently and adequately, through what is provided by health institutions thatsecure Those services, as it is one of the criteria for measuring the progress of nations and theirdevelopment, as the concept of planning and harnessing geographic information systems in recentyears has become more common in service institutions and is aware of this concept and its generalapplications, and the importance of the topic has been studied the reality of planning Efficiency ofhealth services in the al-Khider district in accordance with Iraqi health standards, and harnessing theservices of the GIS program to know the efficiency of these services in the study area, as the resultsof the study showed that some health services are available to the district center (the city of alKhider) within the framework of local general indicators and provide a service for individualsaccording to the agreed standards While there are some services that do not reach the specifiedstandard and suffer from a deficit, especially in the countryside of the elimination , while the Darajiside suffers from a clear deficit at the level of the health service at all levels, as the residents of theDaraji district and its villages depend on the health service provided by the elimination Center , andthis constitutes a pressure that reflects its impact on the residents of the study area, forcing thejudiciary to transfer many cases to the hospitals in the city of Samawah, and the GIS program wasrelied on in the statistical analysis (scope of service and neighborhood link) to know the extent ofdispersion and concentration of services, as results showed The analysis is that some of them haveconcentrated in certain areas of the elimination, while the residents of some areas lack theseservices, in addition to the presence of one general hospital in the study area that serves theelimination as a whole