SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF HEALTH CARE CENTRES IN MYSORE CITY

V Minutha; P Jayashree

doi:10.53989/bu.ge.v9i2.9

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DOI: 10.53989/bu.ge.v9i2.9

Year: 2020, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 53-58

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SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF HEALTH CARE CENTRES IN MYSORE CITY

V Minutha^1*, P Jayashree²

¹UGC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Studies in Geography, University of Mysore, Mysore, 570006, Karnataka, India
²Professor, Department of Studies in Geography, University of Mysore, Mysore, 570006, Karnataka, India

Received Date:02 July 2020, Accepted Date:21 November 2020

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

The main theme of healthcare is to provide complete health facilities, to protect every one for physical, social, and mental health, to decrease the death rate, to increase the life expectancy of man. In this paper an attempt has been made to study the spatial distribution patterns of existing Health care Centres and different aspects of health care facilities available in Mysore city using GIS techniques. The present study is based on both Primary and Secondary source of Data. The Primary data have been collected from field survey and personal observation. The Secondary data related to health care are collected from various offices. The Base Map of Study area has been Geo-referenced and digitized using GIS Software. Location of healthcare centres will be mapped with the help of Global Position System (GPS). Data is analyzed though simple quantitative techniques like ratios, percentage and the spatial disparity of health centers were measured by applying location quotient. Various Maps have been generated to show the health care services in the study area. The results show that the availability of healthcare center is unequally distributed.

Keywords: Healthcare; Spatial; Distribution; Location quotient GIS; GPS

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