GIS-Based Medical Resource Evaluation Method

Abstract

As one of the public service resources, medical and health care has a great guarantee for people’s healthy life and life safety and is an important part of ensuring the normal and orderly operation of urban functions. This paper takes the spatial pattern of urban medical resources in Hohhot as the research object and collects three types of urban medical resources, including clinics (health centers), specialized hospitals, and general hospitals, a total of 1300 sample points, based on GIS spatial analysis methods, using the average nearest neighbor, kernel density estimation method, standard deviation ellipse method, and accessibility measure to analyze the spatial distribution of medical resources. The results show that the medical resources in the urban area of Hohhot are all in a state of agglomeration, but due to the different functions of different types of medical resources, their distribution ranges and distribution directions also show different characteristics. Saihan District, Yuquan District in the southwest, has fewer medical facilities resources, and the distribution of the accessibility of the three types of medical facilities is quite different. Therefore, the spatial balance of comprehensive medical resources in the urban area of Hohhot needs to be further improved. The results of this paper have implications for the layout of medical facilities and planning has important reference significance.