Assessment of the Spatial Distribution of Health- Treatment Services and Providing Optimized Distribution Pattern Case Study: Khuzestan Province

According to the problems which exist in the distribution of spatial services in developing countries, such as lack of hierarchy of distribution centers in the region, this issue has more than ever considered.The purpose of this article is identifying the existing challenges based on health components through ranking counties of Khuzestan province and providing an optimum model for Spatial Distribution Service.The research methodology is descriptive – analytical and based on documentation and library resources. VIKOR decision making method was used for ranking and SPSS, GIS & Excel softwares have been used for analysis of data. Finally the results indicates the unequal distribution of health and treatment services in the counties of Khuzestan province,in which Ahvaz city with a score of zero is placed at the highest level of development and Bavi with a score of 1 is placed at the lowest level. .Also, the correlation coefficients of VIKOR indexes with Population number was 0.652 and VIKOR index with percent of Urbanization was 0.642 which shows a high correlation. At the end, according to the obtained results, Optimization pattern of spatial distribution of health services has been suggested in Khuzestan province.