Spatio-temporal change in healthcare infrastructure in rural India

Abstract

Healthcare Infrastructure of developing counties have major flaws and shortfalls in accordance to their population, India being the most populous country with the biggest rural population in the world has such underperformances. India’s Healthcare system has been divided in 3 tiers which starts from Sub-Centre followed by PHC and lastly CHC. This paper attempts to study the regional distribution of these healthcare centres in rural India. The study reveals the unequal distribution of these healthcare centres and them providing their services to more population than the norms. The average area covered by these centres have decreased from 2002 to 2011, the population per centres has increased in the same period of 2002 to 2011. Even though there was a significant increase in these centres after the implementation of NRHM but they weren’t proportional to the population requirements.