Analysis of spatial distribution patterns of health centers in Rusafa district

Abstract

The availability of health centers in the population sectors depends on their location, geographic, social and topographic nature. This research aims to reveal the spatial distribution pattern of health centers in Rusafa district, Baghdad and the general trend of that distribution using statistical spatial analysis methods, in which the Nearest Neighbor method, to determine the prevalence of points health centers The spatial distribution of the centers was based on factors (number of health centers per sector, name of the sector, population density in each sector), and research data obtained from the public sectors of the Baghdad Health Department. In 2017, the researcher concluded that the spatial distribution of health centers in each of the Rusafa sectors of Baghdad takes the form of a divergent random pattern ie there is no organization and planning in the presence of the number of health centers where the area and population of each sector were not taken into account. The research also found that the pattern of distribution of sectors in the district of Rusafa has taken a regular distribution according to the Lorenz index, which is one of the measures of concentration.