Evaluating the Distribution of Health Services in Nasiriyah City by Utilizing Geomatics Techniques

Abstract

The growth of cities is one of the most important global phenomena, which is occurring under the influence of environmental factors on the human, economic and political, and giving services to citizens and the city are of the priorities of the urban planners and managers. To accomplish this, a variety of techniques have been used both classical and modern the use of quantitative methods in problems locating utilities increased and each of these methods in addition to the advantages and disadvantages in this field is used to study how the spatial distribution of health facilities in Nasiriyah city, has been studied as the case the system uses a multi-criteria analysis. The issue of site selection, service, and service centers in the city is better. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of the current distribution of health services by using GIS and Population criterion is analytical and descriptive methods and the type of application. To achieve this objective the integration of GIS and hierarchical method (AHP) and GIS was used, the required layers, including the proximity to compatible land uses, access to the Road network, population density, Spatial distribution, Create an integrated database of health service sites to be established in the future to assist decision-makers and planners to for take decision-making. After conducting the analysis using the two criteria (population density and Spatial distribution ), the results were found, most of which was the apparent deficiency in the current health services, the city's need for various types of health services.