A geographic approach on health services of selected health indicators in Tamil Nadu

Abstract

A Health indicator is a quality of an individual, population, or environment which is subject to measurement (directly or indirectly) and can be used to describe one or more aspects of the health of an individual or population through quality, quantity and time(WHO, 2004).The present paper analyses the Health Indicators and health infrastructure. A Geographical Information System (GIS) technique is employed to study the data and analyses. In Tamil Nadu 7,555 sub centre are required but in position there have 8,706 sub centres. The basic requirement of health infrastructure are Primary Health Centre (PHC) 1253/1227, Community Health Centre (CHC) 313/385, Health Worker Female at sub centre & PHCs 9933/9253, Health Worker Male at Sub centre 8706/ 1266, Doctors at PHCs 1227/ 2271. The present total population of Tamil Nadu is 7.21 Crore and the present study examines the spatial distribution of infrastructure on selected health indicators in Tamil Nadu.