The Right Approach to City Health; an Idea in Analyzing the level of Spatial Inequality and the Realization of Urban Justice Case Study: Five Areas of Urmia City, Iran

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

1 PhD student of Urban Planning, Department of Urban Planning

2 Assistant Professor, Visiting Department of Urban Planning, Central Tehran Branch

3 Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning

Abstract
Problem: Justice in urban health means the absence of systematic differences in one or more aspects of the health status of citizens or population groups in terms of social, economic and physical environment. In the present study, the city of Urmia has been investigated and analyzed as a focus of studies on the level of realization of the right to health approach to the city and the distribution of health-therapeutic services and functions.

Aims: In terms of its purpose, the current research is in the category of semi-basic, semi-applied research, which is carried out with descriptive and analytical method.

Methods: The methods of collecting information are based on documentary-library methods, observation and field verification (Swara and Cocoso tests).

Findings: Based on the results, the city of Urmia has not acted in a fair manner in terms of the distribution of health-treatment functions and services in accordance with the approach of the right to the city, in spatial planning and allocation.

Conclusion: Regions 4 in the central context and the commercial pole of the city and 2 in the peripheral part of Urmia city have respectively the most favorable and unfavorable environmental conditions and conditions in the matter of enjoying the right to health policies of the city. In the end, based on the findings and the identification of the strengths and weaknesses of the study area in the field of urban development, some targeted and sustainable proposals and actions have been taken to improve the environmental conditions.

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