Planning non- spatial Access to Health Services in Mashhad

The issue of access to urban services is one of the important issues that affects the urban environment from a variety of dimensions. In some cases, lack of proper access to some applications also endangers the health of individuals. Health services are an example of this, and the need for timely and appropriate access to it is essential for all people in the community. Access to services from both spatial and non-spatial access dimensions can be verified. In the meantime, socioeconomic conditions of the society are considered as an important aspect of non-spatial access. Because non- spatial access reflects the social and economic conditions of the population using the service. Accordingly, in this study, nonspatial  access to health services in Mashhad was analyzed. For this purpose, the conceptual model of the research was first developed using eight socioeconomic indicators at 1266 statistical domains. The use of factor analysis model for socio-economic characteristics of domains led to the formation of two economic and social factors that account for more than 74% of the total changes and variations. The result of the factor analysis for each domain was mapped to each factor in the coordinate axis (x; y) and the position of each domain was obtained. The result of this study showed that in Mashhad, a different situation was observed in terms of non-spatial access indicators. So that 21.6% of the population is considered as the first priority in health promotion programs due to low socioeconomic status as a non-spatial access index. This should be considered in the development of health and medical programs.