Rural Planning
Morteza Tavakoli; Shirko Ahmadi; Gharib Fazelniya
Abstract
Different geographic environments, offer different potentials and problems in different fields especially in livelihood activities of their residents, attention to which gains a lot of importance in local and environmental programming. Thus identification and analysis of rural potentials and problems ...
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Different geographic environments, offer different potentials and problems in different fields especially in livelihood activities of their residents, attention to which gains a lot of importance in local and environmental programming. Thus identification and analysis of rural potentials and problems is an important step in the process of planning a sustainable rural development. Thus, in an explanatory and analytical approach. This study aims to assess the livelihood problems for villagers living in of Sardasht township based on its findings. This research was conducted based on documents and library as well as interpretations and field survey with a descriptive approach. The statistical population consists 5722 people from the top 50 households of 8 villages of Sardasht township 386 of which were selected the Morgan tables as a statistical sample by simple random sampling and its data was analyzed by SPSS software. Results show that, supply factors imposed the livelihoods in this villages were affected by environmental conditions including gardening and non-agricultural activities, being in a boundary region has also caused smuggling activities. Also results generally show that significant relationship exists between geographic factors such as land slope, access to educational level, distance from boundary area and different earning source of rural livelihoods all of which generated specific livelihood pattern for the villages in the region. Areas of the border also cause direct and indirect employment (freight transportation and passenger operations, loading, etc) that share a border of more than direct employment of indirect employment.
Akbar Kiani; Gharib Fazelniya; Parvaneh Jamshidi
Volume 17, Issue 43 , October 2013, , Pages 169-190
Abstract
Health center services in cities and urban communities have directly related to the health and advance in these societies. Individuals in different ages have different health needs and the provisions of these needs are possible in framework of desirable distribution of these services only. Assessment ...
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Health center services in cities and urban communities have directly related to the health and advance in these societies. Individuals in different ages have different health needs and the provisions of these needs are possible in framework of desirable distribution of these services only. Assessment of health services in two qualitative and quantitative aspects are important. For the purpose of this paper we carried out the assessment of Zabol city using TOPSIS model. The methodology was based on descriptive and analytical studies in one part and library and field research in the other part. The study area included health centers of Zabol city to evaluate the health facilities - health and rural health centers that also provide services. Foe data collection we used health centers with distribution questionnaire of between Zabol citizens. Centers considered according to 6 criteria of qualitative and quantitative (ability to develop in the future, the number of facilities, number of employees, easy access radius service, distribution of health facilities in the city based on population covered) were evaluated using TOPSIS model. The results of using TOPSIS model showed the hierarchy and prioritization of health centers in the city of Zabol as A1> A3> A2> A4. Thus A1 (Valieasr) ranked 1, A2 (Emam Reza) ranked 3, A3 (Hazrat Rasol) at Rank 2, and A4 (Payegahe Almahdi) placed fourth in the ranking.
