Comparison of Development of Government Healthcare Facilities In Tribal And Non Tribal Region Of Nashik District (Maharashtra) India

Uniform distribution of any service or facility is always a challenging job as the physical and cultural factors are not homogeneous. Providing Health care facility to a large population which is distributed in variety of landforms or physical region is not easy task. Study of health care services is one of the major aspects of Health Geography. Many studies have been made in recent time at macro or micro level. Akhtar (1978)1 have been examined the spatial distribution and growth of healthcare services in Rajasthan. In Maharashtra, socio economic abstract were publishes regularly (yearly) for every district, which provide important statistics of health facilities. By its study one can understand the spatio-temporal changes in the development of health care facilities. In present paper an attempt has been made to understand the development of government health care facilities in the span of 40 years i.e. 1971 to 2010. Tahsil has been taken as a study unit. All 15 tahsil were grouped in to tribal and non-tribal tahsil on the basis of tribal population percentage. By using composite score method all tahsil were categorized in to 3 levels of development. It is found that initially Government health facilities are not distributed well in tribal part but after 40 years tribal tahsil shows remarkable increase in this field. Few tahsil have yet to develop fully in this manner. The norms suggested for medical facilities by Bhore committee or National health plan 1983 should be implemented in near future.