Özet:

Health geography is an area of study in which the health and geography relationship in the area, the health problems and health services are studied, and there are suggestions for solutions to problems. In the study, the accessibility to the family health centers (ASM) located in the province of Salihli, Manisa, was examined. In the selection of the Salihli city as a research field, the size of the city’s population and the number of ASMs in the city have been influential. In the last decade, the city of Salihli has shown significant development in the horizontal direction and has also been considered to be chosen as a research field. The study consists of the application of the network analysis method in a new field, taking into account the criteria values used by different researchers and the regulations that are relevant to the subject. The purpose of this study is to find out how accessible are the houses in the neighborhoods that make up the city's center with the help of the network analysis of the ASMs established according to the application of family medicine in the province of Salihli, how many people living in these houses can reach the ASMs in a suitable manner and how much the location of the ASMs comply with the relevant regulations. In the study, the network (network) analysis was applied to determine the availability of ASMs located in the city of Salihli. The numerical (vector) map of the ASMs in Salihli has created the data sets used during the analysis of the population data of the age-range by neighbouring boundaries, the numerical (vector) map of the housing, the urban transport network, and the data sets used during the analysis of the age-range population data. The network analysis was implemented using the ArcGis 10.2 program. Research finds that the number of family health centers in the field remains insufficient. When the accessibility status of the city population is revealed, no neighborhood remains fully within the area of influence specified in the legislation.