Spatial Distribution and Analysis of Public Health Care Facilities in Yewa South Local Government, Ogun State

V.A. Uwala¹

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.6 , Issue.7 , pp.12-17, Jul-2020

Online published on Jul 31, 2020

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Abstract :
The problem of spatial inequality in the provision of key social facilities and services such as health care facility has been a bane of effective delivery of such services in many countries. This study assesses the spatial distribution of public healthcare facilities in Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State. The objectives include: to analyse the spatial distribution pattern of existing public healthcare facilities; identify the under-served settlements in the local government and propose optimal locations for future public healthcare facilities in the study area. Data were collected from both primary and secondary sources. For primary data, a field survey was conducted to pick the geographic coordinates of existing public healthcare facilities. The geographic coordinates of the health facilities were coded and integrated into ArcGIS 10.3 to determine the spatial distribution of the facility. The Nearest Neighbour Analysis (NNA) was used to determine the spatial pattern of health care facilities. The study reveals a random distribution pattern of public healthcare facilities with nearest neighbour index value of 0.89.Futhermore, buffer analysis brought to the fore that some settlements at the centre and north western part of the study area do not have access to any healthcare facility within 5 kilometres distance. This study therefore, recommends suitable locations for future public healthcare facilities in the study area to ensure spatial efficiency

Key-Words / Index Term :
Distribution, Health Care Facilities, Location, Public, Yewa South

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