Classification of Provinces of Iran by Health Indicators

An important aspect of society’s development is health development and in the other words the quantity and the quality of people’s access to the health services. Considering that any planning to deliver services to poor regions needs the analysis of the current situation، this research classifies health development index in the country. Using multivariate statistical method of factor analysis in SPSS software، we classified iran’s provinces from the32 health development index view point. using Factor analysis، five factors were extracted and named: expert human resources، rural health services، medicinal facilities، governmental health services and private sector services. These factors explain 61% of the changes of development level. Resuit showed obvious diffrentiation among provinces considering health services. Tehran is the most developed and Ilam is the most deprived provinces in iran.