ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROSES IN THE LOCATION SELECTION: AN APPLICATION IN HEALTH INSTITUTIONS

Facility location selection is one of the strategic decisions. Because, without making any scientific research on this subject which requires a very important investment, any wrong steps will not be compensated. Multi-criteria decision-making techniques, which have witnessed significant developments in this area in recent years, provide important scientific support for decision makers. Because, like all strategic decisions, facility location selection decisions should be made under the influence of many different criteria. In this study, the facility location selection decisions, which is a strategic decision that requires extremely high costs in health institutions, has been discussed by using analytical hierarchy process method which is widely used in multi-criteria decision-making techniques in recent years. In this context; the criteria of position, maintenance, cost and demography were used in the analysis by considering the literatüre and the expert opinions. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that the most important variable in the decision was demography with a ratio of 35.48%. Other variables according to the order of weight; cost with 19,01%, well-maintaining with 7,85% and location characteristics with 4,33%