Measuring spatial accessibility to primary health center in Mysore district

Human health has been prime factor in the sustainable development of the society, irrespective of the developmental status of the society or the country. Health care system of any country or region has an important role to play for the sustainable health management. This paper demonstrates a method for estimating the geographical accessibility of Primary Health centers of Mysore District. For the network analysis the road network of the district has been converted into network dataset. Depending upon the road hierarchy and characteristic, roads were allotted an average vehicular speed. On the basis of the speed, travelling time and travelling distance, the service areas and closest facilities both in terms of distance and time were calculated. The results reveal that a large proportion of the residents have to travel a long way to access the health care facilities most importantly in South and south western parts of Heggadadevanakote and western parts of Piriyapatna.