Geo-Eye

Abstract

This paper aims to attempt the study of availability, accessibility and Infrastructure of public healthcare Facilities in Hunsur taluk, Mysuru District. It also tries to find out the gap between existing public health care facilities and normative requirement of public health care facilities as set by the government of India. The base map of study area has been geo-referenced and digitized using ARC GIS software. The Global positioning system (GPS) was adopted to take the coordinate of all the existing Public health centers in the study area. Data is analyzed though simple quantitative techniques like ratios, percentage and the spatial disparity of health centers were measured with the help of Nearest Neighbour Techniques. The results show that the availability of Public healthcare center is unequally distributed and there is scarcity in the availability of infrastructure and workforce among the study area. A large proportion of the residents have to travel a long way to access the health care facilities. There is a high inequality in the distribution of public Health centers, Health infrastructure facilities and Health Workforce in the hoblis of Hunsur taluk, Mysuru District. The Public Healthcare centers are not increasing with the population so there we can identify the gap between them. To reduce the imbalance in the health centres, the establishment of new health care centres should be based on structured criteria and geographical aspects, and there is need to improve the infrastructure of existing healthcare centers and increase the number of staffs in the study area for balanced regional development.

Keywords: Availability; Accessibility; Nearest Neighbour Techniques; GIS and GPS