IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

A COMPARATIVE GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF INEQUALITY IN DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC HEALTHCARE FACILITIES IN KHED, AMBEGAON, AND JUNNAR TEHSILS IN PUNE DISTRICT, MAHARASHTRA

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Gopale Ramesh Narayan, Dr. Patil Vilas Vasant

Abstract

This paper examined the comparative geographical study of inequality in the distribution of Public Health Care facilities in Khed, Ambegaon, and Junnar tehsils in the Pune District. Required data were obtained from various sources, secondary data from the census, gazette, government action plan, reports and magazines, and socio-economic abstract of the Pune district were used for this study. GIS tool was used for preparing maps with QGIS 3.8.1 software, and Microsoft Excel is used for calculation and making graphs. In this study, results show whether public healthcare facilities are adequate or not in the study area. In this data, we analyzed a comparatively geographical study of inequalities in the public healthcare facilities in the Khed, Ambegaon, and Junnar tehsils. Recently medical field is taking the lead to understand the role played by geographically distributed healthcare facilities in people's health maintenance. The paper has studied inequalities in the spatial distribution of healthcare facilities in Khed, Ambegaon, and Junnar tehsils.

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