Analyzing the Distribution of Health and Therapy Services in Lorestan Province Zand Farhada, Sepahvand Zeinabb aDepartment of Social Science, Payame Noor University, Tehran, I.R. Iran bGeography of Student, Payame Noor University (Lorestan, Khorramabad Branch) I.R. Iran Online published on 6 August, 2014. Abstract From the viewpoint of human capital, the main axis of constant health and development, human is known as a major factor in national economic growth. Because of various obstacles such as the lack of national health programming, wrong system of health and therapy services and giving low priority to medical department, the developing countries put a low part of their resources and facilities at the disposal of this department, therefore, there is a deep in relation to this issue, there is a deep gap between developed and developing countries. We did this research in order to classify the townships of Lorestan province based on the level of development in health and therapy services to determine the inequalities of development in this province. The method of research was quantitative. In order to rank the regions we used the digital taxonomy procedure. We applied the indices of reaching the health and therapy supervisions. In the research, Khoramabad with the development degree of 0.40463 and Delfan with development degree of 0.88939 had the highest and lowest development in the level of health and medicine, respectively. Top Keywords Taxonomy, Health, Development, Lorestan, Iran. Top |