Geographic variation in health care utilization has raised concerns of possible inefficiencies
in health care supply, as differences are often not reflected in health outcomes. Using …

The National Health Service in Britain is undergoing far-reaching changes. While District
and Regional Health Authorities are currently merging, professionals agree that primary …

Geographic variation has been of interest to both health planners and social
epidemiologists. However, while the major focus of interest of planners has been on …

This book has been written for readers with a range of different interests. Students
undertaking school or university courses in geography will probably come to this book with …

Birch and Abelson [1] argue that non-income based barriers might explain differences in
utilization of health services within and between income groups. Databases which contain …

In the past 10 years, interest in studying the relationship between area of residence and
health has grown. During this period empirical relations between place and health have …

Health geographers have generally been content to adopt measures of distance, access
and the lack of resources as the metrics of social (in) justice without critically placing their …

Background Geographical accessibility to health facilities remains one of the main barriers
to access care in rural areas of the developing world. Although methods and tools exist to …

Doctors are distributed unequally across different regions in virtually all OECD countries,
and this causes concern about how to continue to ensure access to health services …

This book combines a wide-ranging theoretical view of accessibility and utilization with
empirical experience from a variety of comparable health-care delivery systems-those of the …