Understanding patients heterogeneity in healthcare travel and hospital choice-A latent class analysis with covariates

Y Gao, H Pan, Z Xie, KN Habib - Journal of Transport Geography, 2023 - Elsevier
Access to health care is key to well-being, and it is increasingly clear that aggregated
accessibility analysis is hard to reflect people's actual healthcare behaviour. This paper …

Cross-city patient mobility and healthcare equity and efficiency: Evidence from Hefei, China

X Yan, L Shan, S He, J Zhang - Travel Behaviour and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent studies on healthcare accessibility have made use of medical records to study the
actual patient mobility and its implications for healthcare governance. Drawing on 39,067 …

Incorporating multiple travel modes into a floating catchment area framework to analyse patterns of accessibility to hierarchical healthcare facilities

X Ma, F Ren, Q Du, P Liu, L Li, Y Xi, P Jia - Journal of Transport & Health, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction The existing healthcare-services-related literature tends to examine
accessibility under a single travel mode, and measurement approaches are remaining …

Health Care Accessibility Analysis Considering Behavioral Preferences for Hospital Choice

Q Qiao, Y Zhang, J Liu, H Xu, L Gan - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Research on the potential accessibility of medical services has made great progress, but
there is a large gap between the analysis results and the actual feelings of residents. With …

Determinants of travel mode choice for seeking healthcare: A comparison between elderly and non-elderly patients

F Du, L Mao, J Wang - Journal of transport geography, 2021 - Elsevier
People's travel mode choices can vary significantly by age group due to different influencing
factors, but relevant research on health-related travel is scarce. In this study, we explored …

An External Patient Healthcare Index (EPHI) for Simulating Spatial Tendencies in Healthcare Seeking Behavior

J Pan, D Wei, BC Seyler, C Song, X Wang - Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Healthcare resources are always more limited compared with demand, but
better matching supply with demand can improve overall resource efficiency. In countries …

Mapping the travel modes and acceptable travel time to primary healthcare institutions: A case study in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

WR Cao, QR Huang, N Zhang, HJ Liang… - Journal of transport …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Understanding location-specific travel modes and acceptable travel time to
primary healthcare institutions across large regions is important for measuring accessibility …

Spatial access by public transport and likelihood of healthcare consultations at hospitals

B Cui, G Boisjoly, R Wasfi, H Orpana… - Transportation …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
As healthcare is a right in Canada, analyzing the distribution of spatial access to medical
consultations, which are crucial for the prevention, diagnosis, and early treatment of …

Analysis of big patient mobility data for identifying medical regions, spatio-temporal characteristics and care demands of patients on the move

C Koylu, S Delil, D Guo, RN Celik - International Journal of Health …, 2018 - Springer
Background Patient mobility can be defined as a patient's movement or utilization of a health
care service located in a place or region other than the patient's place of residence. Mobility …

Mapping the spatial disparities in urban health care services using taxi trajectories data

Y Chen, B Wang, X Liu, X Li - Transactions in GIS, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The understanding of spatial inequality in health care services is critical for reasonable
policy‐making and management. In this study, we present a novel approach to analyze the …