Spatial Organization and Availability of Health Care Facilities

Shruti Pandey

Abstract: The spatial organization of the HCFs denotes the way services are organized on a particular geographical unit. In the spatial organization the focus is not only on the points of study on a horizontal surface. It also encompasses the hierarchical level of provision of HCFs both in a geographical and administrative area. With this in the study of spatial organization the distance between the two points of the study was also covered. The spatial patterning of availability however studies the distribution of HCFs vis - ? - vis spatial distribution of population. In this context the paper explains the structure of HCFs in the country in general and particularly the state of Uttar Pradesh from the point of hierarchy of provision of various level of health care facilities and their administrative structure It also attempts to indicate the possible implication of the existing patterns in terms of their availability, accessibility and utilization.

Keywords: availability, accessibility, utilization, location, Organization