Abstract

• In this paper, the researcher tried to seek the Medically Underserved Area (MUAs) with the different variables in Meiktila Township. With the help of geographical representation method and the weighted score introduced by the criteria for designation as MUA, the MUAs of the Meiktila Township is defined. Finally, the necessary actions which should be provided for the remote rural areas are proposed. With regard to the health care centres, the numbers of governmental health care centres and the numbers of visited patients to the concerned health care centres are considered. It can be admitted that, the data relating to the private clinics or private hospital in the study area could not be taken into account as the necessary and reliable data are not available from those private sources. The rural areas do have fewer physicians, fewer medical specialists and fewer dentists than the urban areas. It is found that an adequate health care work force is important to the rural area in two ways. Physicians, dentists and other health care practitioners working in rural communities of the study area may earn less in the full-service hospitals and the medical staffs have less access to advance technologies.