Description: Hospitals are concentrated in the municipality located in the capital city of Colombo. By observing the number of inhabitants, it can be seen that such concentration occurs in areas with a large number of inhabitants, mainly Colombo and Kandy. On the other hand, the map reveals that municipalities with a few residents tend to have no or few hospitals, as seen in the western and eastern parts of the study area.
Name: Number of Hospitals for 100 000 persons in 2001
Display Field: DISTRICT
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Description: As shown on the map (Figure), the spatial distribution of hospitals across the population is not uniform over the country, and there are many hospitals per 100,000 people in the north and few hospitals per 100,000 people in most populated cities such as Colombo, Matara and Gampaha.
Name: Number of Hospitals for 100 000 persons in 2012
Display Field: DISTRICT
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
Description: As shown on the map (Figure), the spatial distribution of hospitals across the population is not uniform over the country, and there are many hospitals per 100,000 people in the north and few hospitals per 100,000 people in most populated cities such as Colombo, Matara and Gampaha.
Name: Change (Difference) number of Hospitals for 100 000 persons from 2001 to 2012
Display Field: DISTRICT
Type: Feature Layer
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Description: As the Population grew, more people were assigned to one hospital in 2012 than in 2000 in almost every district. However, in Jaffna and Mannar there are exceptions, due to the population decline in the north because of the civil war.Over the past decade, the minimum number of people assigned to the hospital has decreased from 2353 and the maximum has increased by 8965.