Geographical Study of Closest Facility Analysis with Reference to Time and Distances of Primary Health Centres in Pune District

This paper examined the closest facility analysis with reference to time and distances for accessibility from various neighboring settlements towards the primary health centres in the Pune District. Accessibility coverage indicates the degree to which resources are physically available to the general public. Two important accessibility considerations are time and distance. Instead of using distance to measure geographic accessibility, the World Health Organisation suggests using journey time. It is challenging to compare estimates of the distance to health facilities due to the vast differences in topography and transportation infrastructure between and within countries. The number of users who can access and utilise the services limits their maximum capacity in the case of accessible coverage. Using 102 health centres and around 1842 villages, this section explains how network analysis in a GIS framework may be used to model travel time and distance to Primary Health Centres in the Pune District. The PHC facilities were considered demand sites, while the village centroids were determined and considered supply points because the population is not dispersed equally over the geographic area of each village.