Geo-Eye
Department of Geography & GIS
Department of Geography & GIS
Geo-Eye
DOI: 10.53989/bu.ge.v15.i1.26.5
Year: 2026, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 18-22
Original Article
Dnyaneshwar S Suryawanshi 1*
1Professor & Head, Department of Geography, VWS Dr. M. Y. Vaidhya Arts, Prof P. D. Dalal Commerce & Dr.D. S. Shah Science, College, Dhule, Maharashtra, India.
*Corresponding author
Email: [email protected]
Received Date:21 February 2026, Accepted Date:22 February 2026
The hinterland of population depends on health service facilities. The area and people they can be used to gauge how effective they are? The primary goal of this article is to categorize PHCs into various service levels, as per average area served by per composite weightage on altitudinal belt-wise distribution of PHCs. Field survey, questionnaires; inspections of five rural hospitals and 38 PHCs are used for together data. GIS-based diagrams have been created for spatial evaluation and composite weightage are used to determine the average service area. The findings indicate that, primarily at higher elevations with poor accessibility, 34.88% of PHCs serve less than 3 square kilometers, 51.16% serve between 3 and 6 square kilometers and 13.95% cover more than 6 square kilometers. Five categories ranging from better served to very badly serviced, have identified through the classification of PHCs. PHCs are distributed unevenly, but significantly overall with the maximum concentration found in the 600–700 m altitudinal belt. The study has attention to regional differences in access to healthcare and offers suggestions for fair resource distribution of health planning in tribal areas.
Keywords: Health services, Composite Weightage, GIS, Tribal Area, PHCs
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© 2026 Suryawanshi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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