ANALYSIS OF ACCESSIBILITY TO FAMILY HEALTH CENTRES (FHC) IN UŞAK CITY BY USING GIS

Smart City systems, which are becoming increasingly widespread day by day, increasing the importance of spatial analysis. Spatial analysis When applied in conjunction with GIS in determining needs and putting forward solutions to those needs, the field of study is expanding and gives more accurate results. One of the most important spatial analyzes is network analysis, which helps to determine the specific site accessibility of the human population living in the city, or to identify areas of need for the construction of specific centers. In the study, accessibility of family health centers in Uşak province in the Inner Western Anatolian section of the Aegean Region was examined. Family health centers started to be established in the province of Düzce with the law numbered 5258 which entered into force in 2004 in our country. When we look at the scope of family health centers, there are one or more family physicians and institutions that provide family medicine services as family health workers. Before the analysis phase, the existing building data from Uşak Municipality, the open addresses of family health centers from Uşak Provincial Health Directorate, the numerical transportation network from OpenStreetMap open data and population data from TURKSTAT were provided. Known family health centers with open addresses are digitized with ArcMap 10.5 application. The collected data were analyzed by ArcMap 10.5 application using network analysis in the framework of accessibility. Through the network analysis and the system established by the existing transportation network, accessible areas of family health centers in Uşak city have been determined. The analysis is based on the 500 m distance determined by the law and the 1000 m distance determined by the researcher. Considering the distance of 500 meters, it was determined that all the buildings in a neighborhood were excluded from the regulation. It is noteworthy that access problems are high in the city except in Özdemirler District. However, in 500 meters, easily accessible areas are concentrated in the center and south of the city. Considering the alternative distance of 1000 meters, the accessible area seems to be concentrated in the center of the city. As a result of the analysis, the biggest problem is that some of the areas in the city periphery are outside of accessible area.

Keywords

Accessibility, Health Geography, Family Health Center, Geographical Information Systems, Network Ana