Survey and Analysis of Ardabil City Suburbs Access to the Health Care Delivery Services (Health Centers)

Background & objectives: Health care centers are among the most important and essential centers that proper and timely access to them is one of the basic goals of social justice. The health of the individual and the community depends on the centers that provide primary health care. Rapid, timely, and inexpensive access to these centers is very important and necessary, in any community, especially in urban areas. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate and analyze the access of Ardabil suburbs to health care delivery centers. Methods: This study, using spatial statistics models, in Arc / GIS software, has dealt with the spatial distribution of healthcare applications in Ardabil. The required data has been collected in a library-based manner by referring to relevant sources and organizations. IDRISI SELVA software has been used for correlation between population and health use as well as health use with other uses. Results: The results show that area 2 of area 2 and area 5 of area 4 are in better condition in terms of access to health centers on the other hand the rest of the areas are in poor condition. Also, the correlation between population and medical use was negative in the whole city and area four. Conclusion: In the field of compatibility between health and other uses, there is a positive correlation between health use and educational, cultural, green space, commercial, service and, sports applications. In contrast, there is a negative correlations with residential, law enforcement, industrial workshop.