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KMID : 0371019960290020215
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Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
1996 Volume.29 No. 2 p.215 ~ p.226
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Determining the Location of Urban Health Sub-center According to Geographic Accessibility
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Lee Kun-Sei
Kim Chang-Yup
Kim Yong-Ik
Shin Young-Soo
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Abstract
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Decentralization to local governments and amending of Health Center Law re to promote the efforts of health penning at the level of local agencies. In the health facility planning, it is important to take into account that what to be built, where to be located, how far should be service area and so forth, because health facilities are immovable, and require capital as well as personnel and consumable supplies.
The aim of our study, answering to the question of ´where to be located?´, is to determine the best location of urban health sub-center. At the local level, planning is the matter of finding the best location of specific facility, in relation to population needs. We confine the accessibility, which is basic to location planning, to geographic one.
Location-Allocation Model is used to solve the problem where the location is to maximize geographic accessibility. To minimize the weighted travel distance, objective function, Rk = ∑∑aijwidij is used. Distances are measured indirectly by map measure-meter with 1:25,000 Suwon map, and each potential sites, 10 administrative Dongs in Kwonson Gu, Suwon, are weighted by each number of households, total population, maternal age group, child age group, old age group, Relief for the livelihood, and population/primary health clinics.
We find that Kuwoon-Dong, Seodun-Dong, Seryu3-Doug, according the descending orders, are best sites which can minimize the weighted distance, and conclude that it is reasonable to determine the location of urban health sub-center among those sites.
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KEYWORD
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gegraphic accessiblility, Location-Allocation Model, Health Sub-center
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