Author: Toru Hashimoto
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-81-24
Year: 1981
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (M.Eng.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1987
Examination Committee: Joao P. C. Guimaraes (Chairperson); Harvey Demaine, Hans Detlef Kammeier (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Many developing countries are in the process of selecting new locations for providing basic public and social services to rural populations. These location decisions are critically important for development , because large numbers of t he population are in rural areas and their transportation and communication systems are of ten poorly developed and sometimes costly to use for lower income population. So there is an urgent need to establish an efficient strategy for selecting the locations of service facilities which reflects the people’s needs . More often than not , planning based on the standard central place theory results in failure due to its inability to satisfy the needs of the people. At the same time there are various constraints which prevent planners from using optimal location mode ls, even though they have t he potential to reflect t he needs of the people in their defined objectives. This study aims at finding out what the people’s real needs are in terms of physical accessibility to health care services and at assessing the feasibility of the micro computer application of location-allocation based upon defined objective function s and data availability. Several kinds of field surveys , including the interview surveys of sample households and pick- up bus drivers, data collection of the patient registry records etc., were conducted in the four districts of Nakhon Ratchasima Province. These field surveys revealed the behavioral pattern of the people under the two-level hierarchical health care service system. From the findings t he max1m1z1ng attendance model of location- allocation was formulated. The main feature of this model is that it does not simply allocate t he demands to the nearest health care service facility instead , the demands are allocated to the higher level and the lower level facilities according to the difference of the level of service which they render. After the formulation of the model, it was compared with two other types of location- al
Scholarship Donor(s): The Keidanren (Federation of Economic Organization)
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering
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