Basic Health Areas

The Basic Health Area is the territorial framework for the provision of primary health care, with direct access to the population, in which it must have the capacity to provide continuous, comprehensive, permanent and accessible care. They are delimited by the Ministry of Health and are constituted by the municipalities or aggregations of municipalities that determine, together with the Districts, the Primary Health Care Map. According to Law 2/1998 of 15 June 1998 on Health of Andalusia, basic health areas are created in order to achieve the greatest efficiency in the organisation and operation of the Andalusian Public Health System, generating for planning, management and support for the provision of primary health care services in Andalusia. In 2002, the Primary Health Care Map of Andalusia was updated in accordance with Order of 7 June of that year and corrigendum to that order (June 2002 and September 2003). The information, created and stored in GIS format, has been documented in the Ministry of Health at 1:100,000 scale.