Evaluation of Equity in Health with the Aim of Achieving Citizen's Equal Access to Health Care Centers (Case Study: Ardebil City)

Equality in distribution of health facilities is one of the main indicators for increasing the availability of the general health index to the society. So, equitable access to health services for all people in a community leads to promoting the health and equal opportunities in the society. The aim of this study is the evaluation of equity in health by assessing people's access to health centers using the Geographic Information System (GIS) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) in Ardebil (with Descriptive and analytical Methods). DEA is one of the useful tools in understanding decision-making milieu, with the primary information processing. Thus, with taking advantage of the GIS the spatial index was provided. Hence, the access quality of the ARDEBIL citizen's to health centers by using of the spatial indicators in the structure of CCR-O model was evaluated. According to the results, the average efficiency of the urban core is the 0.45. Among the urban cores of Ardebil, only three urban cores have the perfect efficiency (Including a range of Shohada Square, Sharyati and 15 Khordad, and Shahriyar neighborhoods, Azadegan and the Garapache garden and the area around Shorabil). In Division of the efficiency to 3 categories in format of Quite efficient (1 = μ), acceptable (0.7≤μ) and unacceptable (0.7≥μ), areas in about 1,000 hectares with a 30 thousand residents of South-Central corridor position with over 6.5 km have the perfect and acceptable efficiency; of the total area of 6031 hectares and 421069 spectators of urban cores.