Planning health services in Al-Khidr District using GIS

  • Ola Lutfi Mahdi Al-Muthanna University
  • Kafaa Abdallah Lifulawf Aljiashii Ministry of Education
Keywords: Planning, health services, efficiency, health service indicators

Abstract

Health services represent one of the main pillars that contribute effectively to building and evaluating urban societies, as it is one of the basic elements in the process of social, economic and civilization development for societies, which is determined by the volume of health services that the individual gets efficiently and adequately, through what is provided by health institutions that secure Those services, as it is one of the criteria for measuring the progress of nations and their development, as the concept of planning and harnessing geographic information systems in recent years has become more common in service institutions and is aware of this concept and its general applications, and the importance of the topic has been studied the reality of planning Efficiency of health services in the al-Khider district in accordance with Iraqi health standards, and harnessing the services of the GIS program to know the efficiency of these services in the study area, as the results of the study showed that some health services are available to the district center (the city of al-Khider) within the framework of local general indicators and provide a service for individuals according to the agreed standards While there are some services that do not reach the specified standard and suffer from a deficit, especially in the countryside of the elimination , while the Daraji side suffers from a clear deficit at the level of the health service at all levels, as the residents of the Daraji district and its villages depend on the health service provided by the elimination  Center , and this constitutes a pressure that reflects its impact on the residents of the study area, forcing the judiciary to transfer many cases to the hospitals in the city of Samawah, and the GIS program was relied on in the statistical analysis (scope of service and neighborhood link) to know the extent of dispersion and concentration of services, as results showed The analysis is that some of them have concentrated in certain areas of the elimination, while the residents of some areas lack these services, in addition to the presence of one general hospital in the study area that serves the elimination  as a whole

Author Biographies

Ola Lutfi Mahdi, Al-Muthanna University

College of Arts / Al-Muthanna University

Kafaa Abdallah Lifulawf Aljiashii, Ministry of Education

Al-Muthanna Education Directorate

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Medical technician means: specialists in sonar and x-ray.
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Published
2020-10-26
How to Cite
Lutfi Mahdi, O., & Abdallah Lifulawf Aljiashii, K. (2020). Planning health services in Al-Khidr District using GIS. Al-Qadisiyah Journal For Humanities Sciences, 23(3), 528-545. Retrieved from https://journalart.qu.edu.iq/index.php/QJHS/article/view/275