Geographical analysis

Abstract

Geographers are much concerned about the environment. The unhygienic conditions have been prevailing in the environment influenced by the man’s activities. As a result, the health care concept has created much awareness in the society. Therefore, the attempt has been made in this paper to study the distributional pattern of medical centres their locational characterises and threshold of area served by the medical facilities in the Salcete Taluka of Goa. Directorate of Health Services (DHS) has played an important role in the provision and administration of health services. In order to raise the quality, extend accountability and deliver the services fairly, effectively and courteously, Citizen's Charter for the Directorate of Health Services has been prepared. Geographical considerations play a crucial role in influencing health. Geography may directly affect an individual’s health status, through environment or less tangible geographical effects such as an area’s social capital; geography may play an important role in the nature of health care delivered, through historical and cultural inheritances and regional price variations; and the geographical distribution of health care facilities may affect utilisation, through differential opportunity of access to services. The present paper aims to study infrastructural facilities and hierarchical order of medical centres in Salcete Taluka of Goa. The attempt has been made in the present paper is to study the functions of rural and urban medical centres. The spatial distributions and their functions are responsible for spatial movement and organization. Higher population size centres provides more complex facilities.

Key words: Hierarchy, Tangible, Health, Spatial Distribution and Infrastructure,