A Planning Methodology for Improving Emergency Medical Systems in Rural Areas

Abstract

There is a big disparity in places in the level of emergency medical service, because it strongly depends on the location of local medical facilities and the geographical conditions. Therefore taking these local conditions into consideration is important for improving emergency medical systems in rural areas.
However there is no sufficient methodology based on an index of level of service which reflects the difference of local conditions.This study proposes a methodology to select an improvement alternative which raises the level of emergency medical service in point bases.