Investigate inequalities in access to medical facilities (Hospital) in the metropolitan Kermanshah using GIS

◦: Improper distribution of medical care in developing countries creates access inequality to these services in cities. The purpose of this study was to investigate inequalities in access to medical facilities in the metropolitan Kermanshah.
Materials The method of this applied study was descriptive – analytical. Due to the spatiotemporal nature of the research, geographic information systems (GIS) were used. Research data included hospital addresses and demographic data from statistical blocks of Kermanshah based on Iran’s 2011 census report. Using the neighborhood and overlap analysis in Arc/GIS software, the numbers of population/ households that had or had not access to medical centers were calculated. Also, the allocation of hospital beds for the population was evaluated.
•: In total, Kermanshah city has 13 hospitals with 2342 bed till 2014 that most of beds were in general hospitals. The statistics showed that the existing hospitals cover only 48.51% of population and 51.49% of households have no standard access. The number of existing hospitals cannot response to the citizen's needs. The ratio of hospital beds to population was 2.35.
•: What can be inferred from the results is that all residents have not equal access to medical care and also distribution of hospital centers was not proportionate with households and population distribution. There is injustice in access to medical facilities of Kermanshah city.