An AHP-based GIS for a New Hospital Site Selection in the Kirkuk Governorate

Abstract

The uniform expansion in the population of Kirkuk governorate increases the interest in constructing new hospitals. Their development must suit many factors such as contamination, distance to health centers, financial constraints, social inconvenience and, temporal restrictions. Thus, this work is used an analytic hierarchy process (AHP)-based Geographical information system (GIS) to choose and determine the suitable site for new hospitals construction and their services. It is performed throughout two stages, the first one is to determine the availability land for constructing a new hospital based on many factors such as: distances from landfill, existing hospitals, main roads, railways, water bodies as well as erasing the residential area. These factors are represented the constraint area. The second stage is to select land suitability via the suitability process is achieved based on various factor decision weights. The proposed method provided a useful reference for hospital managers and researchers to construct a normalize d selecting to locate a new hospital facility. the AHP has presented their ability to select the suitability map of the site selection of hospitals with high accuracy.